silmä

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • eye organ
  • eye hole in needle
  • eye center of a hurricane
  • eye mark on an animal resembling an eye
  • eye bud of a potato
  • eye ability to notice what others might miss
  • mesh, opening in a mesh or net

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *silmä inherited from Proto-Uralic *śilmä (eye).

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*śilmä

Gloss

eye

Concept
Semantic Field

The body

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

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