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ankkuri.

anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɑŋkːuri/[ˈɑ̝ŋkːuri]
  1. anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)

  2. anchor (any of various instruments serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor)

  3. anchor (something that serves to provide a fixing point)

    figuratively
  4. anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (main host of a television or radio program relating to the broadcast of news)

  5. anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (final runner in relay race)

  6. anchor (metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together)

  7. armature (rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo in an electromagnetic apparatus)

  8. plunger (moving portion of a solenoid)

  9. anchor (superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area)

  10. anchor (the main part of an anchor escapement)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Old Swedish [Term?] (whence Swedish ancker, a variant of ankare; compare Old Swedish ankæri, ankar; perhaps adapted with -uri), ultimately from Old Norse akkeri, from Proto-Germanic *ankurô, itself ultimately from Latin ancora.

noun/ˈɑŋkːuri/[ˈɑ̝ŋkːuri]
  1. an obsolete Finnish unit of measurement for volume of liquid substances, equal to around 39 litres

    historical
  2. small barrel, keg

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Swedish ankare, ultimately from Medieval Latin ancria.

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