MEANING:
Noun: Crowbar (iron or steel bar used as a lever to manually force things apart)
DERIVED FROM:
Sorkkarauta comes from sorkka (”a cloven hoof”) + rauta (”iron”).
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farmariauto
MEANING:
Noun: a station wagon
DERIVED FROM:
Farmariauto comes from farmari (”farmer”) + auto (”car”).
kaiutin
MEANING:
Noun: speaker, loudspeaker.
The word is often seen in plural form, kaiuttimet (”speakers”).
DERIVED FROM:
Kaiutin comes from the verb kaiuttaa (”to make something reverberate/echo”).
vasara
MEANING:
Noun: hammer
EXTRA CREDIT:
Vasara also means the kind of hammer that is in a piano (the one that hits the strings).
kaappari
MEANING:
Noun: hijacker.
DERIVED FROM:
Kaapari comes from kaappa- (a prefix made from kaapata, which means ”to capture,” ”to abduct” or ”to hijack”) + –ri (a suffix used to make an occupation out of a noun or a verb.)
EXTRA CREDIT:
Kaapari is the title of a 2013 Finnish film about Aarno Lamminparras who hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978.
kaulakoru
paahtoleipä
MEANING:
Noun: toast
DERIVED FROM:
Paahtoleipä comes from paahto (”roasted” or ”toasted”) + leipä (”bread”)
juustohöylä
MEANING:
Noun: cheese slicer or cheese plane (an instrument for slicing cheese).
DERIVED FROM:
Juustohöylä comes from juusto (”cheese”) + höylä (”plane” as in the tool used to shave slices off of wood).
höyryttää
MEANING:
Verb: (transitive) To steam (to cook or treat with steam).
RELATED TERM:
Höyry is a noun meaning ”steam” or ”vapor.”
EXTRA CREDIT:
Let’s translate the whole advertising slogan, ”Miksi tehdä muuta, kun voi höyryttää?” or ”Why do anything else when you can steam?”
pikkuhousut
MEANING:
Noun: underpants, briefs, panties, knickers.
DERIVED FROM:
Pikkuhousut comes from pikku- (”small”) + housut (”pants”).
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