karva.
hair (single hair on human or animal) (not used of human head hair except in a technical sense)
Meaning & usage
hair (single hair on human or animal) (not used of human head hair except in a technical sense)
fur
hair (small, tiny amount)
colors, stripes
näyttää todellinen karvansa
color
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *karva (compare Estonian karv, Livonian kǭra, Veps karv), borrowed from Baltic (compare Lithuanian gaũras). In the first texts, karva is attested only in the sense “color”; in its current meaning, it is first mentioned in a biblical text in 1621. Displaced in the sense “color” by väri.
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