Where does “Lounais-Suomi” come from?

Lounais-Suomi (Finnish) comes from Finnish lounainen, from Finnish lounas, from Proto-Finnic lounas.

Lounais-Suomi (Finnish): southwest Finland

Definitions

  1. southwest Finland

Ancestry of “Lounais-Suomi”, step by step

Lounais-Suomi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lounainen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlounainensouthwestern, southwesterly
2Finnishlounassouthwest; lunch
3Proto-Finniclounas—

via Finnish suomi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishsuomiThe Finnish language; Third-person singular...
2Proto-Finnicsoomiperson from Southwest Finland
Every word from Proto-Finnic lounas →Every word from Finnish lounas →Every word from Finnish lounainen →