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vuoksi.

due to, because of, for someone's sake, on account of

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

postp/ˈʋuo̯ksi/[ˈʋuo̞̯ks̠i]
  1. due to, because of, for someone's sake, on account of

    Kiertue peruttiin sairauden vuoksi.
    Älä minun vuokseni keitä uutta kahvia!
Where this word comes from

vuo (“flow”) + -ksi (translative); for the semantic development, compare Hungarian folytán (from folyik (“to flow”))

noun/ˈʋuo̯ksi/[ˈʋuo̞̯ks̠i]
  1. flow (rising tide)

  2. synonym of korkeavesi (“high tide”)

  3. A large, rapidly flowing river.

    rare
Where this word comes from

Derived from vuo (“flow, stream”). Possibly equivalent to vuo + -s; the -ksi for -s (< -ks) is probably an archaism due to the suffix being attached to a monosyllabic stem. The sense "flow, rising tide" is a literary invention from the 1830s, prior to which another literary coinage had actually assigned the opposite meaning ("ebb, receding tide") to it. However, in the end, despite them originally being the other way around, vuoksi and luode came to mean "flow" and "ebb" respectively.

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