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juoni.

plot, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, stratagem; ploy, ruse (secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈjuo̯ni/[ˈjuo̞̯ni]
  1. plot, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, stratagem; ploy, ruse (secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable)

  2. plot, storyline (course of a story)

  3. thread (continued theme or idea)

  4. dyke, dike (sheet of once igneous rock injected into older rocks)

  5. groove or barrel on a crossbow

  6. streak, stripe

    archaic · dialectal
  7. line (straight sequence of objects)

    archaic · dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *jooni (“path”) (compare Estonian joon), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jëne (compare Southern Sami joene (“road”), Erzya ян (jan, “path”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáHnam. Sense diversification from original “path” is particular to Finnic. Compare dialectal juntu (“path”). The narratological sense (“plot”) was first used by Finnish professor, poet and scholar August Ahlqvist in 1860.

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