Where does “lahouma” come from?

lahouma (Finnish) comes from Finnish -uma, from Finnish -ma, from Proto-Finnic -ma, from Proto-Uralic -ma.

lahouma (Finnish): Rotten part of wood

Definitions

  1. Rotten part of wood

Ancestry of “lahouma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnish-umaVariant of -ma; forms passive action/result nouns...
2Finnish-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; The suffix...
3Proto-Finnic-maForms action/result nouns from verbs; Forms the...
4Proto-Uralic-ma—
Every word from Proto-Uralic -ma →Every word from Proto-Finnic -ma →Every word from Finnish -uma →
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