juttu

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • talk conversation, especially an abundant one
  • tale
  • anecdote short often humorous account of an incident
  • story lie
  • article story in a newspaper
  • thing, business, matter
  • event occurrence of social or personal importance
  • case legal proceeding
  • lawsuit
  • affair that which is done or is to be done
  • affair, dating romantic courtship
  • thing, object, item vaguely designated material object
  • bag, cup of tea, cup of joe whatever suits or interests one

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *juttu derived from *jukta- (tell).

Origin

*jukta-

Gloss

tell

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms