ankkuri
Pronunciation: /ˈɑŋkːuri/
“ankkuri” is a Finnish word. Its 12 meanings in English:
noun
- anchor (tool to hook a vessel into the seabed)
- anchor (any of various instruments serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor)
- anchor (something that serves to provide a fixing point)
- anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (main host of a television or radio program relating to the broadcast of news)
- anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman (final runner in relay race)
- anchor (metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together)
- armature (rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo in an electromagnetic apparatus)
- plunger (moving portion of a solenoid)
- anchor (superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area)
- anchor (the main part of an anchor escapement)
- an obsolete Finnish unit of measurement for volume of liquid substances, equal to around 39 litres
- small barrel, keg
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Swedish [Term?] (whence Swedish ancker, a variant of ankare; compare Old Swedish ankæri, ankar; perhaps adapted with -uri), ultimately from Old Norse akkeri, from Proto-Germanic *ankurô, itself ultimately from Latin ancora.
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More Finnish words
- Ankkalammikko
- ankkalammikko
- Ankkalinna
- ankkalinnalainen
- ankkurihissi
- ankkurikauppa
- ankkurikela
- ankkuriketju
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