Where does “tumazzu” come from?

tumazzu (Sicilian) comes from Estonian -tuma, from Proto-Finnic -tudak, from Proto-Finnic -udak, from Proto-Uralic -w-.

tumazzu (Sicilian): cheese

Definitions

  1. cheese

Ancestry of “tumazzu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonian-tuma-en, -fy
2Proto-Finnic-tudakCreates verbs with inchoative, passive or middle...
3Proto-Finnic-udakForms mainly passive or anticausative verbs
4Proto-Uralic-w-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -w- →Every word from Proto-Finnic -udak →Every word from Estonian -tuma →