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liina.

cloth (piece of garment used on furniture, for cleaning, etc.)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈliːnɑ/[ˈliːnɑ̝]
  1. cloth (piece of garment used on furniture, for cleaning, etc.)

  2. line (rope, cord or string, especially a flat one)

  3. headscarf (primarily Southwest Finnish, Satakunta, Tavastia, Central Finland)

    regional
  4. linen (Southwest Finnish) (cloth made from flax fiber)

    archaic · dialectal
  5. hemp (cloth) (Central Finland, Savonia, North Karelia, South Karelia)

    dialectal
  6. cambium (North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu)

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *liina (compare Karelian liina, Veps lin), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”) (compare English linen, German Lein, Swedish lin). Related also to Estonian lina (“flax, linen”), which was borrowed separately from Slavic or Baltic.

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