Where does “karnevaalihumu” come from?

karnevaalihumu (Finnish) comes from Finnish karnevaali, from Italian carnevale, from Latin carnem levāre.

karnevaalihumu (Finnish): carnival revelry

Definitions

  1. carnival revelry

Ancestry of “karnevaalihumu”, step by step

karnevaalihumu traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish karnevaali

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkarnevaalicarnival
2Italiancarnevalecarnival; festival in the week before Lent
3Latincarnem levāre—

via Finnish humu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhumuhum
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns
Every word from Latin carnem levāre →Every word from Italian carnevale →Every word from Finnish karnevaali →