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palkki.

beam, balk, girder (long piece of timber, metal or concrete used in construction as horizontal support)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɑlkːi/[ˈpɑ̝lkːi]
  1. beam, balk, girder (long piece of timber, metal or concrete used in construction as horizontal support)

  2. horizontal bar (on top or bottom of a newspaper page or article, television screen etc)

  3. beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)

  4. bend (strip from dexter chief (upper right corner) to sinister base of the shield)

  5. bar (of signal, etc.)

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Swedish balk, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balkô.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.