imeskellä

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • (intransitive) to suck (casually, for a while; like e.g. a lollipop)
  • (transitive) to (slowly) dissolve a medicine tablet in the mouth instead of biting it or swallowing it whole

Etymology

Affix from Finnish imeä (suck).

Origin

Finnish

imeä

Gloss

suck

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms