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FINNISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

no.

well! (to acknowledge a situation; encouragement to answer or react; expressing the overcoming of reluctance to say something; exclamation of indignance)

2 characters1 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

intj/ˈno/[ˈno̞]
  1. well! (to acknowledge a situation; encouragement to answer or react; expressing the overcoming of reluctance to say something; exclamation of indignance)

    No sepä mukavaa!
    No kai meidän sitten pitää käydä katsomassa.
  2. well? (replaces an obvious question)

    – Kävin kysymässä sulkemisaikaa. – No?
Where this word comes from

Similar interjections can be found in other Finnic languages (compare Estonian no, noh, Ingrian no, Karelian no, Livonian no, noh, Ludian no, Votic no) and possibly also in other Uralic languages (compare Komi-Zyrian но (no), Udmurt но (no)). Compare also to those found in neighboring Indo-European languages (such as Swedish nå, Latvian nu, Russian ну (nu)), which may all trace back as far as Proto-Indo-European *nu. SSA concludes that the interjection is probably part original and part foreign.

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