vaimala

Karelian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish vaiva. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

vaimala (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. bother, inconvenience, pain, distress.

   Tuli tuska nielijällä, / Vaimala vajottajalla. ― Pain came to the swallower / distress to the submerged one.

References

• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “karjala”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN