kielinen

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • being of a language; used mainly as head word in compound terms, independently mainly in questions
  • lingual; used as head in compound terms only
  • tongued; used as head in compound terms only
  • speaking, -phone; used to form adjectives and nouns that indicate a speaker of a certain language e.g. -speaking, Francophone - for a list of words formed with "-phone" see derived terms -section of the entry -phone#Derived -phone.
  • (music) -stringed; used as head in compound terms only

Etymology

Suffix from Finnish kieli (language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue).

Origin

Finnish

kieli

Gloss

language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue

Concept
Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms