Where does “lumipuku” come from?
lumipuku (Finnish) comes from Finnish Lumi, from Finnish lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.
lumipuku (Finnish): snow camo type of camo made for snowy conditions
Definitions
- snow camo type of camo made for snowy conditions
Ancestry of “lumipuku”, step by step
lumipuku traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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 |
via Finnish puku
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | puku | suit set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers |
| 2 | Zulu | mpuku | — |
| 3 | Proto-Bantu | *pʊ́kʊ̀ | rat, mouse |