Karelian edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Finnish vaiva. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun edit

vaimala (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. bother, inconvenience, pain, distress.
    Tuli tuska nielijällä, / Vaimala vajottajalla.Pain came to the swallower / distress to the submerged one.

References edit

  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “karjala”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN