Where does “lumisokeus” come from?
lumisokeus (Finnish) comes from Finnish Lumi, from Finnish lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.
lumisokeus (Finnish): snowblindness
Ancestry of “lumisokeus”, step by step
lumisokeus 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 sokeus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | sokeus | blindness |
| 2 | Finnish | sokea | blind |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | sokeda | blind |