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korpi.

deep forest, forested wilderness

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkorpi/[ˈko̞rpi]
  1. deep forest, forested wilderness

  2. deep forest, forested wilderness an area remote from dense population; backwoods, backwater, the sticks

    colloquial
  3. coniferous swamp (a boreal forest type appearing on moist moraine soils, characterized by dense growth of spruce as the dominating tree species and deep layer of moss as undergrowth; acting often as a transition zone between a dried kangas (“boreal forest”) and various types of suo (“swamp”))

  4. desert

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *korpi (“deep forest”) (compare Estonian kõrb, Livvi korbi (“big spruce forest”), Veps korb), probably from Proto-Uralic *korpe, in which case cognate with Erzya куро (kuro), Northern Khanty [script needed] (χăr), Western Mansi [script needed] (kōrp) and Forest Nenets [script needed] (kurᵊ).

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