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isä.

father (male parent; male who has sired a baby, that man relative to his children)

3 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈisæ/[ˈis̠æ]
  1. father (male parent; male who has sired a baby, that man relative to his children)

  2. father(s), forefather(s), forebear(s), ancestor(s)

    in-plural
  3. father (term of respectful address for a priest)

  4. father (pioneering figure; progenitor)

    figuratively
  5. alternative letter-case form of Isä (“Father, God”)

    alt-of
  6. father (male parent of an animal)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *icä (compare Estonian isa), probably from Proto-Uralic (compare Northern Sami áhčči, Moksha оця (ocä, “brother of father”), Hungarian ős, Tundra Nenets нӣся (nyīsya)).

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