Where does “lumikenkäily” come from?

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

lumikenkäily (Finnish): snowshoeing

Definitions

  1. snowshoeing

Ancestry of “lumikenkäily”, step by step

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