vaimala

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Karelian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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