keri
Pronunciation: /ˈkeri/
“keri” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:
noun
- A rim of a casket, chest, sieve etc. that is made of thin, bent wood or birchbark.
- A rim around millstones.
- The side panel of the body of a fiddle.
- The wheel of a spinning wheel.
- synonym of kärrynpyörä (“cartwheel, wheel of a cart”)
- A bicycle wheel.
- synonym of sompa (“rim in the lower part of a ski pole”)
- synonym of lieri (“brim (of a hat)”)
- The disk at the lower end of the plunger in a butter churn.
- birchbark ring
- synonym of vakka (“wooden container made of bent board”)
- thickness of a cylindrical object, such as the trunk of a tree
- synonym of kääkkä (“old, wrinkled and thin man”)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *keri, probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kere.
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