heilua

Finnish

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Definitions
  • to swing, to sway, to rock to move backward and forward
  • to be loose
  • to swing to hang on the gallows
  • to vacillate to sway unsteadily from one side to the other
  • to vacillate (to swing indecisively from one course of action or opinion to another).
  • to oscillate to swing back and forth, especially with a regular rhythm
  • (colloquial) to wander around, to roam
  • (colloquial) to loiter, to idle

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *heiludak.

Origin

Proto-Finnic

*heiludak

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