riihi

Finnish

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Definitions
  • (agriculture) A traditional Scandinavian and Russian grain drying and threshing cabin, in which the grain was dried in the heat and smoke of a chimneyless stove and then threshed on the floor.
  • (by extension) workshop collaborative effort to some end

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *riihi inherited from *riŋeše.

Origin

*riŋeše

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