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keitin.

an appliance or utensil for cooking food or brewing drinks (with heat); cooker, etc.

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkei̯tin/[ˈk̟e̞i̯t̪in]
  1. an appliance or utensil for cooking food or brewing drinks (with heat); cooker, etc. ellipsis of kahvinkeitin (“coffee machine, coffeemaker”)

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  2. an appliance or utensil for cooking food or brewing drinks (with heat); cooker, etc. ellipsis of vedenkeitin (“electric kettle”)

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  3. an appliance or utensil for cooking food or brewing drinks (with heat); cooker, etc. portable stove

  4. cooking

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  5. digester (in process industry, a vessel in which chemical or biological reactions are carried out in elevated temperature)

Where this word comes from

keittää (“to cook; brew (drinks)”) + -in. Coined by Finnish author and priest Antero Warelius.

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