Where does “lum” come from?

lum (Livonian) comes from Proto-Finnic lumi, from Proto-Uralic lome — snow.

lum (Livonian): snow

Definitions

  1. snow

Ancestry of “lum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finniclumisnow
2Proto-Uraliclomesnow
Every word from Proto-Uralic lome →Every word from Proto-Finnic lumi →
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