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kakku.

cake (rich, sweet dessert food)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɑkːu/[ˈkɑ̝kːu]

  1. cake (rich, sweet dessert food)

    syödä ja säästää kakku / pitää kakku ja syödä se

  2. (soft) bread (in some regions, used of white bread, while in others of rye bread)

    dialectal

  3. cake (round block of any various dense materials)

  4. pie (whole of wealth or resource)

    figuratively

  5. ellipsis of hunajakakku

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis

  6. bit (prison sentence)

    slang
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *kakku (compare Estonian kakk (“loaf of (white) bread”), Votic kakku (“flatbread, pancake”)), borrowed from Proto-Norse *ᚲᚨᚲᛟ (*kakō) (compare Swedish kaka).

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