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meteli.

noise, racket

6 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmeteli/[ˈme̞t̪e̞li]
  1. noise, racket

  2. synonym of jatuli (“a sort of giant”)

  3. a crime of intentionally endangering public safety or making a threat of violence against a public officer

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Unknown, possibly from the same onomatopoeic root as in mekkala and melu. Has also been proposed to be a borrowing from Russian метель (metelʹ, “blizzard, snowstorm”), but the semantic gap makes this unlikely.

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