Where does “lumememm” come from?

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

lumememm (Estonian): snowman

Definitions

  1. snowman

Ancestry of “lumememm”, step by step

lumememm traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Estonian lumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianlumisnow
2Proto-Finniclumisnow
3Proto-Uraliclomesnow

via Estonian memm

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Estonianmemm—
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Estonian lumi →
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