Where does “painomuste” come from?

painomuste (Finnish) comes from Finnish paino, from Proto-Finnic painadak, from Proto-Uralic pajńa- — press.

painomuste (Finnish): printer's ink

Definitions

  1. printer's ink

Ancestry of “painomuste”, step by step

painomuste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish paino

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpainoweight; press; press, weight
2Proto-Finnicpainadakto push, to press
3Proto-Uralicpajńa-press

via Finnish muste

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishmusteink
2Finnishmustablack; black horse; Elative singular form of...
3Finnish-ntääFront vowel variant of -ntaa
Every word from Proto-Uralic pajńa- →Every word from Proto-Finnic painadak →Every word from Finnish paino →