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juoni

Pronunciation: /ˈjuo̯ni/

“juoni” is a Finnish word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. plot, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, stratagem; ploy, ruse (secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable)
  2. plot, storyline (course of a story)
  3. thread (continued theme or idea)
  4. dyke, dike (sheet of once igneous rock injected into older rocks)
  5. groove or barrel on a crossbow
  6. streak, stripe
  7. line (straight sequence of objects)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jooni (“path”) (compare Estonian joon), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jëne (compare Southern Sami joene (“road”), Erzya ян (jan, “path”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáHnam. Sense diversification from original “path” is particular to Finnic. Compare dialectal juntu (“path”). The narratological sense (“plot”) was first used by Finnish professor, poet and scholar…

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