ahkio.
akja, large pulk (low-slung boat-like sled), suitable for carrying goods or people in deep snow, usually drawn by a man or a reindeer
Meaning & usage
akja, large pulk (low-slung boat-like sled), suitable for carrying goods or people in deep snow, usually drawn by a man or a reindeer
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic [Term?] (compare Karelian ahkivo), possibly from Proto-Uralic *aškɜ (compare Northern Khanty өхәԓ (øhəł)). The narrow distribution in just northern Finnish dialects and Karelian could also imply a Sami intermediate, but no related Sami words appear to exist (akio, akia are apparent ghost words), and etymological sources generally consider this an inherited word. Has also been proposed to derive from Germanic, e.g. Proto-Norse *ᚨᚲᛃᛟ (*akjō), corresponding to Swedish äcka, Icelandic ekja (“driving, fording”), to the root ak (“drive, ford, ride”) (Swedish åk), or to Proto-Norse *ᚨᛋᚲᛁᛃᛟ (*askijō) (compare Old Norse eskja, “(ashwood) box”), but LÄGLOS rejects a Germanic origin.
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