Where does “maista” come from?
maista (Votic) comes from Finnish maistaa, from Finnish maku, from Proto-Finnic maku, from Proto-Germanic smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European smegʰ-.
maista (Votic): to taste, sense by taste
Ancestry of “maista”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Finnish | maistaa | to taste; to taste, have a taste of |
| 2 | Finnish | maku | taste, flavor; sense of taste; flavor of a quark... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | maku | taste, flavour |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | smakkuz | taste, savour, smatch, flavour |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | smegʰ- | — |