satakieli

Finnish

noun
Definitions
  • Any of the birds in genus Luscinia, in Finnish satakielet. Individual species are called robin, rubythroat, nightingale and bluethroat in English.
  • The thrush nightingale (sprosser), Luscinia luscinia.
  • A commonly, and erroneously, used name of etelänsatakieli, the common nightingale, nightingale or , Luscinia megarhynchos.

Etymology

Compound from Finnish sata (hundred) + Finnish kieli (language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue).

Origin

Finnish

kieli

Gloss

language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

語

Emoji

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