Where does “lumisota” come from?

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

lumisota (Finnish): snowball fight, snowfight

Definitions

  1. snowball fight, snowfight

Ancestry of “lumisota”, step by step

lumisota 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 sota

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsotawar; warfare; military, war-
2Proto-Finnicsotawar, conflict
3Proto-Uralicśoďawar

Words derived from “lumisota”

Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →