Where does “Mestkjniepa” come from?

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

Mestkjniepa (Plautdietsch): dung beetle

Definitions

  1. dung beetle

Ancestry of “Mestkjniepa”, step by step

Mestkjniepa 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 Kjniepa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschKjniepabeetle
2Plautdietsch-a—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *mistu →Every word from Old Saxon mist →Every word from Middle Low German mist →