Where does “lumisotasilla” come from?

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

lumisotasilla (Finnish): playing a snowball fight; used in the expression...

Definitions

  1. playing a snowball fight; used in the expression...

Ancestry of “lumisotasilla”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishlumisotasnowball fight, snowfight
2FinnishLumisnow frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation; sometimes also similar frozen forms of other substances
3Finnishlumisnow
4Proto-Finniclumisnow
5Proto-Uraliclomesnow
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →