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piika.

maid (female servant)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpiːkɑ/[ˈpiːkɑ̝]
  1. maid (female servant)

    historical · usually
  2. girl

    archaic
  3. a girlchild (term of endearment)

    obsolete
Where this word comes from

Uncertain. The word may be a borrowing from Old Norse píka (“girl, lass, virgin”) (compare Swedish piga (“maid, female servant; female employee on a farm”)) or the Norse term might be from Finnic (compare Estonian piiga (“girl”), Karelian piika (“maid; girl (especially Virgin Mary)”), Votic piikõ (“maid, girl”)). Has sometimes been compared with Turkic words (Chuvash пике (pik̬e, “(young) lady, miss, beauty”)), although a Turkic origin is considered unlikely (and would've likely been mediated by East Slavic or Russian, which it seemingly was not).

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