The name ''Suomi'' () has uncertain origins, but a common etymology with ''saame'' (the Sami, the native people of Lapland) and ''Häme'' (a province in the inland) has been suggested (Proto-Finnic ''*hämä'' from older ''*šämä'', possibly loaned into Proto-Saami as ''*sāmē''), whose source could be the Proto-Baltic word ''*źemē'', meaning '(low) land'. According to the hypothesis, ''*sāmē'' – or ''*šämä'' directly – was loaned back into Baltic as ''*sāma-'' (compare Latvian ''sāms'' 'Finn, Öselian'), from which Northern Finnic reborrowed it (perhaps via a Germanic intermediate ''*sōma-'') as ''*sōma-'' > ''*sōme-'' 'Finland'. In addition to the close relatives of Finnish (the Finnic languages), this name is also used in the Baltic languages Latvian (''soms'', ''Somija'') and Lithuanian (''suomis'', ''Suomija''), although these are evidently later borrowings. An alternative hypothesis by Petri Kallio suggests the Proto-Indo-European word *''(dʰ)ǵʰm-on-'' 'human' (cf. Gothic ''guma'', Latin ''homo''), being borrowed into Uralic as *''ćoma''.