Where does “lounatuuli” come from?

lounatuuli (Finnish) comes from Finnish lounas, from Proto-Finnic lounas.

lounatuuli (Finnish): southwester

Definitions

  1. southwester

Ancestry of “lounatuuli”, step by step

lounatuuli traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lounas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlounassouthwest; lunch
2Proto-Finniclounas—

via Finnish Tuuli

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