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See also: kellő

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kello (compare Karelian kello, Ludian kello, Veps kelo), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skellǭ (bell) (compare German Schelle and Swedish skälla (bell)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkelːo/, [ˈk̟e̞lːo̞]
  • Rhymes: -elːo
  • Syllabification(key): kel‧lo
  • Hyphenation(key): kel‧lo

Noun

kello

  1. clock (instrument used to measure time)
    1. watch (portable or wearable timepiece)
      Synonyms: rannekello, taskukello
    2. timer (device that gives an alarm after a specified time)
      Synonym: ajastin
      munakelloegg timer
    3. o'clock (when indicating time)
      Kello on kahdeksan.It's eight o'clock. (literally, “The clock is eight.”)
      kello kahdeltaat two o'clock (literally, “at clock two”)
    4. time (when asking the time or telling exact time)
      Paljonko kello on?What's the time? (literally, “How much is the clock?”)
      Kello on 20:32.The time is 8:32 pm.
    5. clock (metaphor for regularity)
      Hän tuli joka päivä kellon tarkkuudella.He arrived every day with clocklike regularity.
    6. (nautical, aviation) o'clock (used to indicate direction in relation to the vessel's position so that 12 is straight ahead and 6 is straight behind)
      Tunnistamaton lentokone kello kahdessa!An unidentified aeroplane at two o'clock!
  2. bell (object made of metal or other hard material, which resonates when struck)
    Synonym: soittokello
    vahinko ei tule kello kaulassa
    Kenelle kello soi?For whom the bell tolls?
    1. bell (signal at a school)
  3. funnel, horn (any bell-shaped object)
    Synonyms: see suppilo
    1. (music) bell (part of a brass instrument)
    2. bellflower (plant of the genus Campanula)
      harakankellospreading bellflower, C. patula
      hirvenkellobristly bellflower, C. cervicaria
      kiirunankelloarctic bellflower, C. uniflora
      kissankellobluebell, harebell, C. rotundifolia
      kurjenkellopeach-leaved bellflower, C. persicifolia
      peurankelloclustered bellflower, C. glomerata
      ukonkellowide-leaved bellflower, C. latifolia
      varsankellonettle-leaved bellflower, C. trachelium
      vuohenkellocreeping bellflower, C. rapunculoides

Usage notes

  • (o'clock): When used before a numeral, kello is not inflected.

Declension

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

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kello. Cognates include Finnish kello and Karelian kello.

Pronunciation

Noun

kello

  1. bell
    löövvä kelloato sound the bell
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, N. A. Iljin, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 51:
      Soitti kello. Lapset läksivät stolovoihe.
      The bell rang. The children left for the canteen.

Declension

More information Declension of (type 4/koivu, no gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790), “келло”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 675
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 152
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Karelian

Etymology

From a Germanic language (compare Swedish skälla (bell)).

Noun

kello (genitive kellon, partitive kelluo)

  1. clock

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