purje.
sail; (colloquial) rag, sheet (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along)
Meaning & usage
sail; (colloquial) rag, sheet (piece of fabric attached to a boat and arranged such that it causes the wind to drive the boat along)
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Finnic *purjëh, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *buriz (“favourable wind”), or alternatively and less likely from Baltic (compare Lithuanian burė, Latvian bura). The Baltic words have also sometimes been proposed to be Finnic loans.
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