maku

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • taste, flavor
  • sense of taste
  • (physics) flavor of a quark or a lepton

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *maku derived from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (taste, a taste, smack, flavor).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*smakkuz

Gloss

taste, a taste, smack, flavor

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji
😝

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