Where does “lumilammas” come from?

lumilammas (Finnish) comes from Finnish lammas, from Proto-Finnic lambas, from Proto-Germanic lambaz, from Proto-Indo-European h₁l̥h₁onbʰos, from Proto-Indo-European h₁elh₁én.

lumilammas (Finnish): snow sheep

Definitions

  1. snow sheep

Ancestry of “lumilammas”, step by step

lumilammas traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish lammas

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlammassheep; mutton; sheep, lamb
2Proto-Finniclambassheep, lamb
3Proto-Germaniclambazlamb
4Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁l̥h₁onbʰos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁elh₁én—

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
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁elh₁én →Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁l̥h₁onbʰos →Every word from Proto-Germanic lambaz →