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vaippa.

diaper (US), nappy (UK), napkin (South Africa) (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʋɑi̯pːɑ/[ˈʋɑ̝i̯pːɑ̝]
  1. diaper (US), nappy (UK), napkin (South Africa) (absorbent garment worn by a baby, or by someone who is incontinent)

  2. mantle, cloak, robe (piece of clothing)

    dated
  3. envelope (the physical separator between the conditioned and unconditioned environment of a building, including e.g. the roof or the ceiling of the top floor, base floor and outer walls)

  4. tunic (any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane)

  5. mantle (layer between Earth's core and crust)

  6. the lateral surface of a cylinder or cone

  7. envelope (mathematical curve, surface or higher-dimensional object)

  8. envelope (curve that bounds another curve or set of curves)

  9. sheath, jacket (protective or insulating cover)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *vaippa (compare Estonian vaip, Votic vaippa (Kattila)), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *waipaz (compare Old Norse veipa (“a kind of piece of clothing”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍀𐍃 (waips, “crown, wreath”)).

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