Where does “sivu-uoma” come from?

sivu-uoma (Finnish) comes from Finnish uoma, from Finnish vuo, from Polish wu — The name of the Latin-script letter W.

sivu-uoma (Finnish): tributary, side channel, side stream of a river

Definitions

  1. tributary, side channel, side stream of a river

Ancestry of “sivu-uoma”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishuomariverbed, channel, streambed; normal state of...
2Finnishvuoflow; flux
3PolishwuThe name of the Latin-script letter W
Every word from Polish wu →Every word from Finnish vuo →Every word from Finnish uoma →