Where does “lumiläiskä” come from?
lumiläiskä (Finnish) comes from Finnish Lumi, from Finnish lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.
lumiläiskä (Finnish): snow splotch
Ancestry of “lumiläiskä”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Lumi | — |
| 2 | Finnish | lumi | snow |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | lumi | snow |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | lome | snow |