nimismies.
a peasant appointed as the representative of a rural municipality (pitäjä)
Meaning & usage
a peasant appointed as the representative of a rural municipality (pitäjä)
rural police chief (acting as a police chief, sheriff, distrainor and prosecutor)
Where this word comes from
By syncope from earlier nimitysmies (compare obsolete nimitzmies), from nimitys (“appointment”) + mies (“man”), a kind of calque of Old Swedish nempdaman (literally “appointed man”).
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