peura.
reindeer (Eurasia), caribou (North America), Rangifer tarandus (species of deer native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America)
Meaning & usage
reindeer (Eurasia), caribou (North America), Rangifer tarandus (species of deer native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America)
ellipsis of metsäpeura (“Finnish forest reindeer, subspecies Rangifer tarandus fennicus of the above”)
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *pëtra. Cognates include dialectal Finnish petra, Estonian põder and Veps pedr.
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