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varjostin.

lampshade

9 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʋɑrjostin/[ˈʋɑ̝rjo̞s̠tin]

  1. lampshade

  2. shade (light blocker)

  3. screen (surface or area for viewing moving picture or slide presentation)

  4. shader

Where this word comes from

varjostaa (“to shade”) + -in. Coined by Finnish folklorist and linguist Daniel Europaeus in 1853. * (shader (in computer graphics)): Semantic loan from English shader.

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