koira.
dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
Meaning & usage
dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
ellipsis of koiranuinti (“dog paddle (swimming stroke)”)
military police
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *koira, from earlier *koj(e)ra, from Proto-Uralic *kojera (“male animal”) (whence also koiras (“male animal”)), derived from Proto-Uralic *koje (“male, man”), in which case the word probably originally meant "male dog" specifically (and possibly displaced peni in the general sense of "dog").
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