tila
Pronunciation: /ˈtilɑ/
“tila” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:
noun
- space, room, volume (for something to fit in or set aside for a specific purpose)
- space (area or volume occupied by or intended for a person or thing)
- premises, spaces (the area or volume considered as belonging to a particular building, structure, institution, etc.)
- stead (place or room which another person had, has, or might have)
- estate, real estate unit, tract, rural holding (a piece of land, owned and registered as such in the property register or cadastre, and thus with defined borders, that is located in a region (often rural) that has not had official land subdivision into lots, tontti, carried out within by a public entity)
- state, condition, situation, status (the way something is at any given moment, e.g. in terms of health or integrity)
- state (complete description of a system)
- mode (series of settings; set of rules; variation in gameplay)
- state (stable condition; set of parameters; values of these parameters)
- status (function of some instant messaging applications where a short message is displayed for a user)
- synonym of sija (“position, rank, place (in a competition, etc.)”)
- synonym of sija (“place, stead, where one belongs or is”)
- synonym of tilaisuus (“opportunity, chance”)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *tila (compare Ludian tila, Veps tila, dialectal Estonian tila), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *tilą (compare Old English til and German Ziel).
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