jousi.
bow (weapon)
Meaning & usage
bow (weapon)
spring (mechanical device made of flexible material)
bow (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
musical bow
strings (often collectively, e.g. strings of an orchestra)
a unit of taxation used in Medieval Sweden and Finland
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *jousi (“bow”), from Proto-Uralic *joŋse (compare Erzya ёнкс (jonks, “bow”), Northern Mansi ё̄вт (jōvt, “bow”), Hungarian íj (“bow”), Tundra Nenets ӈын (ŋin°)). * (unit of taxation): Supposedly originally a tax based on the number of men who were strong enough to cock a crossbow (later taken as any man at least 15 years of age) in a household.
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