Where does “poutainen” come from?

poutainen (Finnish) comes from Finnish pouta, from Proto-Finnic pouta — dry weather.

poutainen (Finnish): dry; sunny or cloudy, but with no precipitation

Definitions

  1. dry; sunny or cloudy, but with no precipitation

Ancestry of “poutainen”, step by step

poutainen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish pouta

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpoutadry weather
2Proto-Finnicpoutadry weather

via Finnish inen

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishinen—
Every word from Proto-Finnic pouta →Every word from Finnish pouta →