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murre.

dialect

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmurːeˣ/[ˈmurːe̞(ʔ)]
  1. dialect

Where this word comes from

murtaa (“to break (into pieces)”) + -e. First attested in 1644 in the sense “break, breakage, breaking point”. In 1819, Jaakko Juteini used the word to refer to a nonstandard usage of language; one year later, in 1820, Finnish linguist and author Reinhold von Becker became the first to use it to mean “dialect”.

noun/ˈmurːe/[ˈmurːe̞]
  1. dog, pooch

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

Probably from the verb murista (“to growl”)

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