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Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish[ 1] ( Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) [ 2] is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 ...
Nykysuomen sanakirja ( The Dictionary of Modern Finnish or The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish) is a Finnish language dictionary published between 1951 and 1961 in six separate volumes. The dictionary was edited by the Finnish Literature Society and published by WSOY. It is the first monolingual Finnish dictionary and has over 201,000 headwords.
Words derived from Finnish used in more specialized fields: aapa mire - a marsh type, in biology. palsa - low, often oval, frost heaves occurring in polar and subpolar climates. pulk - a type of toboggan (derivative of word pulkka) puukko - traditional Finnish sheath knife. Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology.
Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [ 37][ 38]
Foxit PDF Reader (formerly Foxit Reader) is a multilingual freemium PDF (Portable Document Format) tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. [3] Foxit Reader is developed by Fuzhou, China-based Foxit Software. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. [4]
George Halonen (born Yrjö Halonen, 15 December 1891 – 12 May 1954) was a Finnish–American journalist and cooperative organizer. [1] Halonen was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1912, Halonen emigrated to North America where he worked for the Finnish–Canadian newspaper Työkansa [ fi] in Port Arthur, Ontario from 1912 to 1913 ...
Vieno Severin "Severi" Alanne (October 23, 1879 – May 26, 1960) was a Finnish-American chemical engineer, dictionary compiler, socialist journalist, and consumers' co-operative organizer. Alanne is best remembered as a director and publicist for the large and popular Finnish-American consumers' co-operative in the Upper Midwest region of the ...
This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...