Where does “lasku-uoma” come from?
lasku-uoma (Finnish) comes from Finnish lasku, from Votic laskõa, from Proto-Finnic laskedak, from Proto-Uralic laćke-.
lasku-uoma (Finnish): a (possibly artificial) channel through which a lake discharges
Definitions
- a (possibly artificial) channel through which a lake discharges
Ancestry of “lasku-uoma”, step by step
lasku-uoma traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lasku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lasku | descent, an instance of descending, sliding down... |
| 2 | Votic | laskõa | to let go, let loose, release |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | laskedak | to drop, to fall; to release; to let, to allow |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | laćke- | — |
via Finnish uoma
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | uoma | riverbed, channel, streambed; normal state of... |
| 2 | Finnish | vuo | flow; flux |
| 3 | Polish | wu | The name of the Latin-script letter W |