polvi

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • knee
  • stifle joint above the hock on a horse's hind leg and corresponding to the knee
  • hitch type of knot
  • generation single step in the succession of natural descent

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *polvi inherited from Proto-Uralic *polwe.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*polwe

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