Arkistot kuukauden mukaan: maaliskuu 2015

kukkopilli

kukkopilli

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MEANING:

Noun: Cock whistle, rooster whistle.

DERIVED FROM:

Kukkopilli is a compound term made from kukko (”cock,” ”rooster”) + pilli (”straw,” ”whistle,” ”pipe”).

EXTRA CREDIT:

Rooster Whistle, sometimes called a savikukko (”clay cock”) is a flute-like whistle made of clay in the shape of a bird. The blow hole is in the tail. On the side or chest of the bird are often a 1-4 finger holes allowing the production of additional musical notes.

neuvola

lastenneuvola

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MEANING:

Noun: child health center (for maternity, family and children’s health services)

DERIVED FROM:

Neuvola comes from neuvoa (”to advise,” ”to council” or ”to show”) +‎ -la (a suffix used to form nouns that signify a place, such as an abode, a house, a land of, etc. Often denotes a farm in many place names.)

EXTRA CREDIT:

[Neuvola description below excerpted from a Girls’ Globe blog article from 2013. Read the whole article here.]

”These maternity and child health clinics form a specific branch of the Finnish public health care system for maternity, family and children’s health services. Finnish mothers usually visit neuvola between 8-10 times during a pregnancy. The visits are free, and include two ultrasounds. In addition to health care services, nurses in neuvola offer information and advice, organize family support groups, and help parents with the baby-parent interaction once the child has been born.”

 

suosittu

suosittu

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MEANING:

Adjective: popular (as in liked by many); hot or in (in the same sense).

Suosittu appears in our example in its comparative form, suositumpi meaning ”more popular.”

DERIVED FROM:

Suosittu is the passive participle of suosia, a verb which means ”to favor.”

EXTRA CREDIT:

Let’s translate the whole headline, ”Frank Underwood on suositumpi presidentti kuin Barack Obama” or ”Frank Underwood (lead character in House of Cards) is more popular than President Barack Obama.”