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Lumi is the Finnish word for snow in case anyone's wondering.
by anttiharju 4y ago
Lumi is the Finnish word for snow in case anyone's wondering.
- kgwgk 4y agoGood to know the inspiration was not this: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/spanish-english/lumi https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/spanish-english...
- Hamuko 4y agoIt's so hard to name anything without it being rude in some language. See also: Mitsubishi Pajero, Mazda Laputa.
- jjtheblunt 4y agois there a cognate in an indo-european neighboring language, perhaps by loanword?
- user_7832 4y agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lumi https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lumi Doesn't look like in a quick glance
- jjtheblunt 4y agoholy cow, I didn't realize that was searchable or i'd have. thank you.
- user_7832 4y agoHaha I just googled lumi etymology I think
- jjtheblunt 4y agotrue : right under our noses is Google.
- anewhnaccount2 4y agoA quick way of determining this with Finnish is if it is 1) a nature word + 2) follows a simple phonetic structure where each syllable is CV or CVV (C = consonant V = vowel) then it might be from proto-Uralic and so not a result of language contact but a "really old" Finnish word and may be congnate with words in other Uralic languages e.g. Hungarian or one of several tiny languages Russia. Also e.g. puu (= tree), vuori (= mountain) is proto-Uralic. Other nature words like järvi (= lake) which don't follow the pattern might be proto-Finnic but have come from neighbours (for järvi it is apparently from baltic/proto-slavic).
- jjtheblunt 4y agototally makes sense (did lots of germanic linguistics in my case, so i definitely understand the patterns you're laying out). thank you.