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keri.

A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring.

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkeri/[ˈk̟e̞ri]
  1. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. A rim of a casket, chest, sieve etc. that is made of thin, bent wood or birchbark.

    archaic · dialectal
  2. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. A rim around millstones.

    archaic · dialectal
  3. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. The side panel of the body of a fiddle.

    archaic · dialectal
  4. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. The wheel of a spinning wheel.

    archaic · dialectal
  5. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. synonym of kärrynpyörä (“cartwheel, wheel of a cart”)

    archaic · dialectal
  6. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. A bicycle wheel.

    archaic · dialectal
  7. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. synonym of sompa (“rim in the lower part of a ski pole”)

    archaic · dialectal
  8. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. synonym of lieri (“brim (of a hat)”)

    archaic · dialectal
  9. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. The disk at the lower end of the plunger in a butter churn.

    archaic · dialectal
  10. A circular or near-circular, usually wooden, rim, edge, wheel or ring. birchbark ring

    archaic · dialectal
  11. synonym of vakka (“wooden container made of bent board”)

    archaic
  12. thickness of a cylindrical object, such as the trunk of a tree

    archaic
  13. synonym of kääkkä (“old, wrinkled and thin man”)

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *keri, probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kere.

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