Where does “lumikenkäilijä” come from?

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

lumikenkäilijä (Finnish): snowshoe walker

Definitions

  1. snowshoe walker

Ancestry of “lumikenkäilijä”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlumikenkäilläto go snowshoeing
2Finnishlumikenkäsnowshoe
3FinnishLumisnow frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances
4Finnishlumisnow
5Proto-Finniclumisnow
6Proto-Uraliclomesnow
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →