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Where does “lumikenkäjänis” come from?

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

lumikenkäjänis (Finnish): snowshoe hare

Definitions

  1. snowshoe hare

Ancestry of “lumikenkäjänis”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlumikenkäsnowshoe
2FinnishLumi—
3Finnishlumisnow
4Proto-Finniclumisnow
5Proto-Uraliclomesnow
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →