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vire.

form, condition (especially emotionally and/or mentally)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʋireˣ/[ˈʋire̞(ʔ)]
  1. form, condition (especially emotionally and/or mentally)

    Olen hyvässä vireessä.
  2. shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom)

  3. tune (the state or condition of being correctly tuned)

    Nyt tämä piano on vihdoinkin vireessä.
  4. tuning (the overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency)

    Ääninäytteiden vire on 442 Hz.
  5. being ready to act

    hana vireessä
Where this word comes from

vireä (“active, animate”) + -e

noun/ˈʋireˣ/[ˈʋire̞(ʔ)]
  1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *virek. Cognate with Estonian vire, Karelian vire and Votic vire.

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