Where does “lounaistuuli” come from?

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

lounaistuuli (Finnish): southwest wind

Definitions

  1. southwest wind

Ancestry of “lounaistuuli”, step by step

lounaistuuli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lounainen

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

via Finnish Tuuli

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTuuliwind
2FinnishTuulikkiA forest goddess, daughter of Tapio in the Kalevala
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