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keri

Pronunciation: /ˈkeri/

“keri” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. A rim of a casket, chest, sieve etc. that is made of thin, bent wood or birchbark.
  2. A rim around millstones.
  3. The side panel of the body of a fiddle.
  4. The wheel of a spinning wheel.
  5. synonym of kärrynpyörä (“cartwheel, wheel of a cart”)
  6. A bicycle wheel.
  7. synonym of sompa (“rim in the lower part of a ski pole”)
  8. synonym of lieri (“brim (of a hat)”)
  9. The disk at the lower end of the plunger in a butter churn.
  10. birchbark ring
  11. synonym of vakka (“wooden container made of bent board”)
  12. thickness of a cylindrical object, such as the trunk of a tree
  13. synonym of kääkkä (“old, wrinkled and thin man”)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *keri, probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kere.

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