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Where does “tuisku” come from?

tuisku (Finnish) comes from Proto-Finnic tuisku — blizzard, snowstorm.

tuisku (Finnish): blizzard, snowstorm

Definitions

  1. blizzard, snowstorm

Ancestry of “tuisku”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnictuiskublizzard, snowstorm

Words derived from “tuisku”

  • tuiskupyssy
  • tuiskuttaa
  • tuiskuta
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