Where does “lumipallo” come from?

lumipallo (Ingrian) comes from Ingrian lumi, from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.

lumipallo (Ingrian): snowball

Definitions

  1. snowball

Ancestry of “lumipallo”, step by step

lumipallo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ingrian lumi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianlumisnow
2Proto-Finniclumisnow
3Proto-Uraliclomesnow

via Ingrian pallo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ingrianpalloball
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →Every word from Ingrian lumi →