Where does “Mesthupen” come from?

Mesthupen (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Mest, from Middle Low German mist, from Old Saxon mist, from Proto-West Germanic *mistu.

Mesthupen (Plautdietsch): dung heap, dunghill

Definitions

  1. dung heap, dunghill

Ancestry of “Mesthupen”, step by step

Mesthupen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Plautdietsch Mest

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschMestdung, manure
2Middle Low Germanmist—
3Old Saxonmist—
4Proto-West Germanic*mistu—

via Plautdietsch Hupen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschHupenstack, heap
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *mistu →Every word from Old Saxon mist →Every word from Middle Low German mist →