askel

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • step, pace advance or movement made from one foot to the other
  • step, pace distance covered in a step
  • step small space or distance
  • step proceeding, measure, action, act
  • step music: interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale
  • step kinematics: change of position effected by a motion of translation

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *askel inherited from Proto-Uralic *aśkele.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*aśkele

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