ruumis

 ruumis

MEANING:

Noun: body, corpse, cadaver.

RELATED WORDS:

• (body): keho, sooma
• (corpse): kalmo
• (corpse, colloquial): raato

 

kesken

 kesken

MEANING:

Adverb, preposition and postposition:  in the middle of, between, among.

USAGE:

As an adverb: unfinished.

As a preposition: in the middle of:

As a postposition: between, among: meidän kesken, heidän kesken… between us, among them…

suunnistaja

suunnistaja

MEANING:

Noun: (sports) orienteer (someone who competes in the sport of orienteering, a family of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain, and normally moving at speed.)

 

ahdas

 ahdas

MEANING:

Adjective: cramped, narrow.

DERIVED FROM:

Ahdas comes from Proto-Finnic *ahtas, from Baltic.

 

velho

 velho

MEANING:

Noun: wizard.

 

konekirjoittaa

konekirjoittaa

MEANING:

Verb: to type (literally, to write by machine.)

DERIVED FROM:

Konekirjoittaa comes from kone ‎(“machine”) +‎ kirjoittaa ‎(“to write”).

EXTRA CREDIT:

You will also hear the phrase kirjoittaa koneella (literally ”to write with a machine.”)

Kirjoituskone ‎ means “typewriter”.

kaulin

 kaulin

MEANING:

Noun: rolling pin, roll (cylindrical utensil used to shape and flatten dough).

RELATED WORD:

Kaulita is a verb that means to roll dough.

samppanja

samppanja

MEANING:

Noun: champagne (sparkling wine produced in Champagne).

Samppanja appears in our example in the partative singular as the phrase Voita laatikollinen samppanjaa means ”Win a case of champagne.”

EXTRA CREDIT:

Synonyms:

• (sparkling wine from Champagne): samppakalja, samppis
• (glass of champagne): samppanjalasillinen, lasillinen samppanjaa
• (sparkling wine): kuohuviini, kuohari, skumppa

muurahainen

muurahainen

MEANING:

Noun: ant.

DERIVED FROM:

Possibly from a Germanic language, compare myra, or from Proto-Indo-European *moruiH-, compare Ukrainian мура́ха ‎(muráxa).

EXTRA CREDIT:

The song  Hämä-hämä-häkki (Finnish version of Eensy-Weensy Spider) features muurhainen in the second verse, ”Muura-muurahainen kortta kuljettaa.”

2. Muura-muurahainen kortta kuljettaa,

ahkerasti työssään aina ahertaa.

Valmis on kohta keko komea,

muura-muurahainen kortta kuljettaa.

Listen to Tapio Rautavaara’s 1951 version here.

 

 

 

 

kastella

 kastella

MEANING:

Verb: to wet, to water (as in a plant), to irrigate

DERIVED FROM:

Kastella comes from kastaa +‎ -ella.