nisu.
synonym of vehnä (“wheat”) (Western Finnish, Kainuu)
Meaning & usage
synonym of vehnä (“wheat”) (Western Finnish, Kainuu)
something baked of wheat, particularly traditional cardamom sweet bread, such as pulla (Western Finnish, Central Finland, Kainuu, American)
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *nisu (compare Estonian nisu, Livonian ni’zzõz, Veps nižu, Votic nisu). Equivalent to nisä (“udder, breast”) + -u; the sense may have originally been “snack”, from which “wheat, something made of wheat”, or may have evoked a comparison between the white milk secreted from a teat and the light-colored grain. Replaced in the standard language in the 19th century with vehnä, which was traditionally used in the eastern dialects (as opposed to nisu, which was traditionally a Western Finnish word).
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