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suoni

Pronunciation: /ˈsuo̯ni/

“suoni” is a Finnish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. vessel, vas (tube or canal that carries fluid)
  2. blood vessel
  3. tendon, sinew (still used in the phrasal verb vetää suonta (“to cramp”))
  4. vein (of a leaf)
  5. vein, lode (sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooni, from Proto-Uralic *sëne. Cognates include Estonian soon, Erzya сан (san), Northern Mansi та̄н (tān), Hungarian ín (“sinew”).

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