syrjäkarein
Finnish
editEtymology
editInstructive plural of syrjä + kare, from a dialectal word kareessa (“slanted, tilted, askew”), which is of unknown origin. Possibly but not necessarily the same as kare (“ripple”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editsyrjäkarein
Further reading
edit- “syrjäkarein”, 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