Where does “lumipaakku” come from?

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

lumipaakku (Finnish): lump of snow, chunk of snow

Definitions

  1. lump of snow, chunk of snow

Ancestry of “lumipaakku”, step by step

lumipaakku 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 paakku

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpaakkulump; gob; clod
2Proto-Finnicpaakkulump
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →