Where does “pakkaslumi” come from?

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

pakkaslumi (Finnish): powder snow

Definitions

  1. powder snow

Ancestry of “pakkaslumi”, step by step

pakkaslumi 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 pakkanen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpakkanenfrost, sub-zero temperature of ambient air; in...
2Proto-Finnicpakkainenfrost
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Finnish lumi →