Karelian

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Etymology

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tehtä (to do, make) +‎ -as. An alternative theory posits instead that tehtä and tehaš are parallel borrowings from Indo-European (see Proto-Uralic *teke-). Compare Finnish tehdas.

Noun

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tehaš (genitive tehtahan, partitive tehašta)

  1. factory
  2. mill (factory)