runko
Pronunciation: /ˈruŋko/
“runko” is a Finnish word. Its 10 meanings in English:
noun
- trunk (usually single, more or less upright part of a tree)
- body (largest or most important structural part of anything, e.g. a car)
- hull (body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane)
- fuselage (main body of an aerospace vehicle)
- chassis (frame or housing containing electrical or mechanical equipment)
- case (enclosing frame or casing, e.g. of a watch)
- structure (overall form or organization of something)
- build (physique of an animal body)
- body (physique of a human body; the human body, e.g. in an aesthetic sense)
- skeleton
Etymology
Proto-Finnic *runka + -o, the root borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skrunkaz (compare Icelandic skrokkur).
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