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Where does “lumi” come from?

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

lumi (Estonian): snow

Definitions

  1. snow

Ancestry of “lumi”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finniclumisnow
2Proto-Uraliclomesnow

Words derived from “lumi”

  • lume
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