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kiulu.

A type of wooden bucket or pail made from slats with one longer slat as a handle, used as a container for liquids e.g. for water in a sauna; a similarly shaped vessel made from another material such as plastic or metal.

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkiu̯lu/[ˈk̟iu̯lu]
  1. A type of wooden bucket or pail made from slats with one longer slat as a handle, used as a container for liquids e.g. for water in a sauna; a similarly shaped vessel made from another material such as plastic or metal.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish skjulo, skjulu, from Old Norse skjóla (“pail, bucket”) (compare Icelandic skjóla), from Proto-Germanic *skeulǭ.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.