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mato.

worm (animal)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɑto/[ˈmɑ̝t̪o̞]
  1. worm (animal)

  2. maggot (soft, legless larva)

    colloquial
  3. maggot (worthless person)

    colloquial
  4. tilde

    informal
  5. worm (a type of malware that spreads between computers independently, i.e. without infecting other executables)

  6. synonym of käärme (“snake”)

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *mato (compare Estonian madu (“snake”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mákš ~ *mačás.

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