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kuore.

European smelt, sparling (Osmerus eperlanus)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkuo̯reˣ/[ˈkuo̞̯re̞(ʔ)]
  1. European smelt, sparling (Osmerus eperlanus)

  2. smelt; freshwater smelt, true smelt (any fish of family Osmeridae)

  3. herring smelt (any fish of the family Argentinidae)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *koorëh, possibly from Proto-Uralic *korɜ. Cognate with Karelian kuoreh, Veps koreh, Livvi kuorʹoi and possibly Komi-Zyrian гурина (gurina), Northern Selkup [script needed] (k͔oor) and Kamassian [script needed] (kuru). Related to Russian ко́рюшка (kórjuška), likely a Finnic or earlier loan.

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