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poimia.

to pick (remove by plucking, e.g. fruit or berries from a plant, mushrooms from the ground or trash from somewhere where it does not belong)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈpoi̯miɑˣ/[ˈpo̞i̯miɑ̝(ʔ)]
  1. to pick (remove by plucking, e.g. fruit or berries from a plant, mushrooms from the ground or trash from somewhere where it does not belong)

    transitive
    Poimin marjoja.
  2. to gather or collect by picking up, glean

    transitive
  3. to excerpt, extract (to take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book)

    figuratively · transitive
  4. to pick up (stitches)

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *poimidak. Akin to Estonian põimima, Karelian poimie, Livonian pȯimõ, Ludian poimida, Livvi poimie, Veps poimda and Votic põimia. Probably also related to Proto-Samic *poajmōtēk (whence Northern Sami boaibmut).

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