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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.
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Finnish ( endonym: suomi [ˈsuo̯mi] ⓘ or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland, alongside Swedish.
During the Winter War of 1939–1940, the Finnish perseverance in the face of the invasion by the Soviet Union popularized this word in English for a generation. [16] [17] In what may have been the first use of sisu in the English language, on 8 January 1940, Time magazine reported: The Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of ...
Finnish profanity. Profanity in Finnish is used in the form of intensifiers, adjectives, adverbs and particles, and is based on varying taboos, with religious vulgarity being very prominent. [ 1] It often uses aggressive mood which involves omission of the negative verb ei while implying its meaning with a swear word.
Cover of the first part. 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 ...
Finnish grammar. The Finnish language is spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns elsewhere. Unlike the languages spoken in neighbouring countries, such as Swedish and Norwegian, which are North Germanic languages, or Russian, which is a Slavic language, Finnish is a Uralic language of the Finnic languages group ...
In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning. Examples of false friends include English embarrassed and Spanish embarazado 'pregnant'; English parents versus Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (both meaning 'relatives'); English demand and French demander 'ask'; and English ...