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Words derived from Finnish used in more specialized fields: aapa mire - a marsh type, in biology; palsa - low, often oval, frost heaves occurring in polar and subpolar climates; pulk - a type of toboggan (derivative of word pulkka) puukko - traditional Finnish sheath knife; Rapakivi granite - a granite rock in petrology; taimen - a species of ...
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Other Finnish words include "vahingonilo," which means to enjoy someone else's misfortune, and "sisu," which is a kind of stoic determination or resilience. 6. Heavy metal fans are spoiled for choice.
The borrowed words may violate phonological rules of the Finnish language, such as vowel harmony. They also include phonemes /b/, /d/ and /g/ and consonant clusters such as /sn/ rarely found in other Finnish dialects. Yet the words remain indisputably Finnish, incorporating Finnish grammar and mostly obeying Finnish phonotactics.
Finnish is written with the Latin alphabet including the distinct characters ä and ö , and also several characters ( b, c, f, q, w, x, z, å, š and ΕΎ ) reserved for words of non-Finnish origin. The Finnish orthography follows the phonemic principle: each phoneme (meaningful sound) of the language corresponds to exactly one grapheme ...
New loan words may exhibit vowel disharmony; for example, olympialaiset ('Olympic games') and sekundäärinen ('secondary') have both front and back vowels. In standard Finnish, these words are pronounced as they are spelled, but many speakers apply vowel harmony – olumpialaiset, and sekundaarinen or sekyndäärinen.