Talk:Heikki Lunta

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As a native Finnish speaker, I'd like to point out that the name is gibberish. "Lunta" is the partitive form of "lumi"=snow, and means something like "an amount of snow", "some snow", and is used to say e.g. "to shovel snow", "it snows", and such. It makes no sense as a name, just like "John Doe's" doesn't. Hence, the "snow god" character isn't Finnish, either in the sense of language or location; it's from Michigan, made up by people who primarily speak English, with some loan words or idioms from Finnish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.214.226.34 (talk) 22:25, 25 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Many of the folks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula migrated from Finland in the 19th century. They also represents the U.S.' largest concentration of Finnish speakers. They also make no pretenses about Heikki Lunta being an authentic Finnish tradition. It's most definitely a uniquely Yooper creation celebrating the dead of winter and all the winter sports and businesses that rely on it. Rklawton (talk) 18:31, 27 January 2022 (UTC)