huuli

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • lip, labium either of the two fleshy protrusions around the opening of the mouth
  • lip part of the body that resembles a lip
  • (idiomatic) olla huulilla (olla huulilla): to be close (to happen), to be at reach
  • (colloquial) joke

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *huuli inherited from Proto-Uralic *šule.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*šule

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