Where does “lumikuorma” come from?

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

lumikuorma (Finnish): snow load live load on a structure that is caused by accumulated snow

Definitions

  1. snow load live load on a structure that is caused by accumulated snow

Ancestry of “lumikuorma”, step by step

lumikuorma 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 kuorma

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkuormaload, charge, burden
2Proto-Finnickoormaload, burden

Words derived from “lumikuorma

Every word from Proto-Uralic lomeEvery word from Proto-Finnic lumiEvery word from Finnish lumi