Where does “Mustmägi” come from?

Mustmägi (Veps) comes from Veps mägi, from Proto-Finnic mäki, from Proto-Uralic mäki.

Mustmägi (Veps): Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe)

Definitions

  1. Montenegro (a country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe)

Ancestry of “Mustmägi”, step by step

Mustmägi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Veps mägi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vepsmägimountain
2Proto-Finnicmäkihill, mountain
3Proto-Uralicmäki—

via Veps mušt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vepsmuštmemory
2Proto-Indo-Iranianmuštíšfist
3Proto-Indo-Europeanmustí-—
Every word from Proto-Uralic mäki →Every word from Proto-Finnic mäki →Every word from Veps mägi →