Where does “smak” come from?
smak (Swedish) comes from Middle Low German smak, from Old Saxon smakk, from Proto-West Germanic *smakku, from Proto-Germanic smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European smegʰ-.
smak (Swedish): taste
Ancestry of “smak”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle Low German | smak | taste; smell |
| 2 | Old Saxon | smakk | — |
| 3 | Proto-West Germanic | *smakku | — |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | smakkuz | taste, savour, smatch, flavour |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | smegʰ- | — |
Words derived from “smak”