ankkuri

Finnish

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Definitions
  • anchor tool to hook a vessel into the seabed
  • (figurative) anchor something that serves to provide a fixing point
  • (television) anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman
  • anchor, anchorman, anchorwoman final runner in relay race
  • (electronics) armature in an electromagnetic apparatus
  • (historical) an obsolete Finnish unit of measurement for volume of liquid substances, equal to around 39 litres

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *ankkuri derived from Proto-Germanic *ankurô (anchor).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*ankurô

Gloss

anchor

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji
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