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

lumikenkäjänis traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lumikenkä

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

via Finnish jänis

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjänishare; mountain hare, "Lepus timidus"; stowaway
2Proto-Finnicjänishare
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →