pesä

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • nest (structure built by a bird or other animal as a place to incubate eggs and hatch and/or rear young)
  • nest (cozy residence)
  • nest (hideout for bad people to frequent)
  • nest (parental home)
  • den (home of certain animals)
  • hive (structure, which a swarm of honeybees inhabits or has inhabited)
  • (legal) estate (property of a deceased person)
  • (baseball) base
  • (curling) house
  • (colloquial) vagina
  • (tulipesä) firebox, (piipunpesä) bowl (of a pipe)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *pesä inherited from Proto-Uralic *pesä (nest).

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*pesä

Gloss

nest

Concept
Semantic Field

Animals

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji
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