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siipi

Pronunciation: /ˈsiːpi/

“siipi” is a Finnish word. Its 13 meanings in English:

noun

  1. wing (animal appendage for flying)
  2. wing (airplane part)
  3. wing (part of building)
  4. wing (portion of forces extending to one side from the main body on a front)
  5. wing (fraction of political movement)
  6. sail (blade of a windmill)
  7. wing, arm (of a seine)
  8. arm (of a semaphore)
  9. blade or a paddle of a water wheel or a paddlewheel
  10. blade or vane of a rotor, e.g. on a turbine or a propeller
  11. mouldboard (curved blade on a plough that serves to turn over the furrow)
  12. flyer of a spinning wheel
  13. wing (human hand)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *siipi, possibly a Baltic loan. Cognates include Estonian tiib, Ingrian siipi, Karelian šiipi /šiibi, Livonian tībõz, Livvi siibi, Ludian siib, Veps šīb, Võro siib, Votic siipi.

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