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nylkeä.

to skin, flay, fleece (remove the skin of an animal)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈnylkeæˣ/[ˈnylk̟e̞æ(ʔ)]
  1. to skin, flay, fleece (remove the skin of an animal)

    transitive
  2. to fleece (con or trick (someone) out of money)

    figuratively · transitive
  3. to beat, conquer, overcome, trounce (defeat a competitor by a very large margin)

    especially · figuratively · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *nülkedäk, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ńülke-. Cognate with Erzya нельгемс (neľgems, “to take away”).

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