haista

Finnish

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Definitions
  • (intransitive) to smell (like = ablative or allative), to have a smell/scent/odor; to stink
  • (figuratively) to smell like, stink, reek of

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *haistak, *haja-.

Origin

Proto-Finnic

*haja-

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