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alue

Pronunciation: /ˈɑlueˣ/

“alue” is a Finnish word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. area, region (any considerable and connected part of a space or surface)
  2. region, area (regional subdivisions)
  3. oblast (regional administrative unit in Russia)
  4. reserve (tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose)
  5. area, region, extent (range of values or locations)
  6. domain (geographic area owned or controlled by a single person or organization)
  7. band (wavelength band)
  8. domain
  9. register (range of a voice or instrument)
  10. synonym of ala (“field; course of study or domain of knowledge or practice”)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *alovëh. Equivalent to ala (“area”) + -ue. First attested in 1829 in an edition of the newspaper Oulun Wiikko-Sanomia. According to SSA, the form alue may have been adopted in the standard language as a result of Karelian influence (Karelian aloveh), being native only in the 'easternmost' of dialects; the Tavastian dialectal word aloo is probably related, however.

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