Where does “lumenmurto” come from?
lumenmurto (Finnish) comes from Finnish murto, from Catalan murta, from Latin myrta, from Ancient Greek Μύρτος, from Semitic m-r-r.
lumenmurto (Finnish): tree breakage caused by an accumulation of snow, snow breakage, snowbreak
Definitions
- tree breakage caused by an accumulation of snow, snow breakage, snowbreak
Ancestry of “lumenmurto”, step by step
lumenmurto traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish murto
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | murto | burglary; breaking |
| 2 | Catalan | murta | myrtle |
| 3 | Latin | myrta | nominative plural of myrtum; accusative plural of... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | Μύρτος | myrtle (Myrtus communis) |
| 5 | Semitic | m-r-r | — |
via Finnish Lumi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Lumi | snow frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances |
| 2 | Finnish | lumi | snow |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | lumi | snow |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | lome | snow |