Where does “lumihanki” come from?

lumihanki (Finnish) comes from Finnish Lumi, from Finnish lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.

lumihanki (Finnish): snow blanket

Definitions

  1. snow blanket

Ancestry of “lumihanki”, step by step

lumihanki traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Lumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishLumisnow frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances
2Finnishlumisnow
3Proto-Finniclumisnow
4Proto-Uraliclomesnow

via Finnish hanki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhankiblanket of snow; Indicative present connegative...
2Proto-Finnichankiblanket of snow; crust of snow

via Ingrian lumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianlumisnow
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →