Where does “lumikouru” come from?

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

lumikouru (Finnish): snow half-pipe

Definitions

  1. snow half-pipe

Ancestry of “lumikouru”, step by step

lumikouru 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 kouru

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkouruchute, gutter
2Finnishkourafist; grapple, grab
3Proto-Finnickoprahollow of the hand
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →