Where does “sumupisara” come from?

sumupisara (Finnish) comes from Finnish sumu, from Proto-Finnic sumu — fog, mist.

sumupisara (Finnish): fog droplet, mist droplet

Definitions

  1. fog droplet, mist droplet

Ancestry of “sumupisara”, step by step

sumupisara traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish sumu

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsumufog, mist; nebula
2Proto-Finnicsumufog, mist

via Finnish pisara

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishpisaradrop
2Proto-Finnicpisaradrop
Every word from Proto-Finnic sumuEvery word from Finnish sumu