piennar
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Finnish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- pientare (not as common)
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *peentara.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
piennar
- (topography) A strip of land at the margin of some land forms.
- shoulder (shelf between two levels)
- tien piennar ― road shoulder
- roadside
- butt (piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field)
- Synonym: pellonpiennar
- headland (unplowed boundary of a field)
- Synonym: pellonpiennar
- ditch bank (strip of land at the top of the slope of a ditch)
- Synonym: ojanpiennar
- berm (narrow ledge or shelf along the top of a slope)
- shoulder (shelf between two levels)
Declension[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
Further reading[edit]
- “piennar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03