Where does “lumemees” come from?

lumemees (Estonian) comes from Estonian lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.

lumemees (Estonian): snowman

Definitions

  1. snowman

Ancestry of “lumemees”, step by step

lumemees traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Estonian lumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianlumisnow
2Proto-Finniclumisnow
3Proto-Uraliclomesnow

via Estonian mees

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianmeesman; husband; inessive singular of mesi
2Proto-Finnicmeesman, male; husband
3Proto-Finnicmeexes—
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Estonian lumi →