asiasana

Finnish

noun
Definitions
  • (information science) index term, descriptor, subject term, subject heading term that captures the essence of the topic of a document, used as keyword to retrieve documents in an information system, for instance a catalog or a search engine

Etymology

Compound from Finnish asia (issue, thing, matter, factual, cause, facts, of a matter topic) + Finnish sana (word, with words, of word, of a word).

Origin

Finnish

sana

Gloss

word, with words, of word, of a word

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

辞

Emoji

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