Where does “ratkiriemukas” come from?

ratkiriemukas (Finnish) comes from Finnish riemukas, from Finnish kas, from Finnish katso!, from Finnish katsoa, from Proto-Finnic kaccodak, from Proto-Germanic gātijaną.

ratkiriemukas (Finnish): hilarious, sidesplitting, hysterical

Definitions

  1. hilarious, sidesplitting, hysterical

Ancestry of “ratkiriemukas”, step by step

ratkiriemukas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish riemukas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishriemukasjubilant, joyful
2Finnishkaslook!, oh!, my!, behold!; look
3Finnishkatso!look!
4Finnishkatsoato look, have a look, take a look; to watch; to...
5Proto-Finnickaccodakto look
6Proto-Germanicgātijaną—

via Finnish ratki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishratkireally, totally; ripped, broken
2Finnishratk-—
Every word from Proto-Germanic gātijaną →Every word from Proto-Finnic kaccodak →Every word from Finnish katsoa →
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