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Finnish

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kaisla (*kaisila), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *gaisilaz (staff, whip) (compare German Geißel and Swedish gissel).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑi̯slɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝i̯s̠lɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑislɑ
  • Syllabification(key): kais‧la
  • Hyphenation(key): kais‧la

Noun

kaisla

  1. rush, bulrush, club-rush (grass-like plants of the genus Scirpus)
  2. any of the sedges (plants) found by water or wetlands in several genera in the family Cyperaceae, most of which were once classified within the genus Scirpus

Usage notes

More information Dialectal synonyms for (“reed, bulrush”) (map) ...

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

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