Where does “lumipölly” come from?

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

lumipölly (Finnish): light, powdery snow hovering in the air; flying snow that impairs visibility

Definitions

  1. light, powdery snow hovering in the air; flying snow that impairs visibility

Ancestry of “lumipölly”, step by step

lumipölly 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 pölly

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishpöllyAlternative form of pöly
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →