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enä

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ena"

Finnish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *enä, from Proto-Uralic *enä (compare Skolt Sami jõnn, Erzya ине (ine, “large, great”)).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈenæ/, [ˈe̞næ]
  • Rhymes: -enæ
  • Syllabification(key): e‧nä
  • Hyphenation(key): enä

Adjective

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enä (obsolete, dialectal)

  1. large, abundant, much

Usage notes

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Independent uses of this word are extremely rare; it is practically only found in place names and as a part of the derived terms listed below.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Santeri Junttila, Petri Kallio, Sampsa Holopainen, Juha Kuokkala, Juho Pystynen, editors (2020–), “enä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 1 January 2024

Anagrams

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