Where does “lumihuippuinen” come from?

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

lumihuippuinen (Finnish): snow-capped

Definitions

  1. snow-capped

Ancestry of “lumihuippuinen”, step by step

lumihuippuinen traces back through two 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 huippu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishhuipputop, peak, summit; climax, culmination;...
Every word from Proto-Uralic lomeEvery word from Proto-Finnic lumiEvery word from Finnish lumi
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