Where does “pahvimuki” come from?
pahvimuki (Finnish) comes from Finnish muki, from Swedish mugg, from English mug, from English motherfucker, from English fucker, from English -er, from Middle English -er, from Old French -er — he, she.
pahvimuki (Finnish): paper cup
Definitions
- paper cup
Ancestry of “pahvimuki”, step by step
pahvimuki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish muki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | muki | mug |
| 2 | Swedish | mugg | mug; a large cup; mug or cup; travel mug,... |
| 3 | English | mug | Easily fooled, gullible; A large cup for hot... |
| 4 | English | motherfucker | An extremely contemptible or mean person; Any... |
| 5 | English | fucker | An undesirable person; The object of some effort;... |
| 6 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 7 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 8 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 9 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 14 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |
via Finnish pahvi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | pahvi | Relatively thick and stiff cardboard. According... |
| 2 | Swedish | paff | stunned, speechless |
| 3 | German | Pappe | paperboard, cardboard; a piece of paper laced... |
| 4 | Middle High German | pappe | pap, mash; pap, flour mash; porridge, mush |
| 5 | Latin | pappa | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 6 | Latin | pappo | I eat, eat pap |