teho
Pronunciation: /ˈteho/
“teho” is a Finnish word. Its 4 meanings in English:
noun
- power, effect, effectivity, effectiveness
- power (measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy)
- throughput (rate of processing)
- Indicates boosting of the base term in one way or other: power, intensive, intense, super-, etc.
Etymology
teh(t)- + -o, probably from the same root as tehdas (and possibly tehdä). The forms with -ht- are likely original (compare Karelian tehto), and the forms with -h- may be generalized by analogy from the weak stem, although according to SSA, sound symbolicism may have also played a part.
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