luokka
Pronunciation: /ˈluo̯kːɑ/
“luokka” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:
noun
- class (group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes)
- class, social class (social grouping, based on job, wealth, inheritance etc.)
- class (category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation)
- grade (level of pre-collegiate education)
- class, school class (group of pre-college students who regularly attend lectures together)
- class (group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher)
- classroom
- class (grouping of data values in an interval)
- class (collection of sets definable by a shared property)
- class (below phylum and above order)
- class (set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior)
- category
- anything bent (over)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *lookka (“shaft bow”), borrowed from late Proto-Slavic *lǫkъ. Doublet of lenkki and linkki. In Finnish, the meaning has abstracted from the original “shaft bow” → “group of things (attached with a shaft bow)” → “group, class”. The semantic widening is probably the reason why the original meaning “shaft bow” is now usually expressed in Standard Finnish with luokki, originally a…
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More Finnish words
- luokitus
- luokitusjärjestelmä
- luokituskaava
- luokitusperuste
- luokkaero
- luokkahenki
- luokkahistoria
- luokkahuone
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