Where does “pilvirintama” come from?

pilvirintama (Finnish) comes from Finnish Pilvi, from Finnish pilvi, from Proto-Finnic pilvi, from Proto-Uralic pilwe — cloud.

pilvirintama (Finnish): an approaching or distancing group of clouds

Definitions

  1. an approaching or distancing group of clouds

Ancestry of “pilvirintama”, step by step

pilvirintama traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Pilvi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishPilvicloud visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air; mass of dust, steam or smoke
2Finnishpilvicloud; hashish, marijuana
3Proto-Finnicpilvicloud
4Proto-Uralicpilwecloud

via Finnish rintama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishrintamafront, battlefront; front; theater
2Finnishrintabreast; chest, especially the front side of it
3Finnish-mäFront vowel variant of -ma
Every word from Proto-Uralic pilwe →Every word from Proto-Finnic pilvi →Every word from Finnish pilvi →