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tauko.

break, pause, recess (interruption)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɑu̯ko/[ˈt̪ɑ̝u̯ko̞]

  1. break, pause, recess (interruption)

  2. rest

  3. caesura (break in a speech, play, poem etc.)

  4. hiatus

Where this word comes from

tauota (“to pause”) + -o. Sense “rest” coined by Finnish ethnomusicologist Armas Otto Väisänen in 1915 (in the book Uusia suomenkielisiä säveltaiteen määresanoja).

noun/ˈtɑu̯ko/[ˈt̪ɑ̝u̯ko̞]

  1. thick rope, tow rope

    dialectal
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *tauko, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *taugō.

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