keskikaista

Finnish

Etymology

keski- (middle) +‎ kaista (lane)

Noun

keskikaista

  1. central reservation; median, median strip (US) (the strip of land that separates opposite directions on a divided highway)

Declension

Usage notes

  • middle lane is a "false friend": in English it refers to the most central or one of the most central ones of the parallel lanes on a highway which has three or more lanes to same direction. In Finnish the corresponding term would be keskimmäinen kaista.
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