sika-
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
sika (“pig, swine”), probably through words like sikaruma (“very ugly”, literally “pig-ugly”)
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
sika- (colloquial, dialectal)
- (Helsinki) extremely, totally, very, really (used as an intensifier in compound terms)
- Se on sikahyvä. ― That's awesome.
Further reading edit
- “sika-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03