Where does “lumilauta” come from?
lumilauta (Finnish) comes from Finnish lauta, from Proto-Finnic lauta, from Proto-Baltic *plauˀtá, from Proto-Indo-European plew- — to fly, flow, run.
lumilauta (Finnish): snowboard
Ancestry of “lumilauta”, step by step
lumilauta traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish lauta
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | lauta | A board; An element in many compound words, where... |
| 2 | Proto-Finnic | lauta | board, plank; table |
| 3 | Proto-Baltic | *plauˀtá | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |
via Finnish Lumi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | Lumi | snow frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances |
| 2 | Finnish | lumi | snow |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | lumi | snow |
| 4 | Proto-Uralic | lome | snow |
Words derived from “lumilauta”