kielitaistelu

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • language strife conflict in Finnish history over the status of Finnish and Swedish as languages

Etymology

Affix from Finnish kieli (language, tongue, string, with languages, of language, of the tongue, of a tongue) + Finnish taistelu (battle, combat, fight, campaign, struggle, fighting).

Origin

Finnish

taistelu

Gloss

battle, combat, fight, campaign, struggle, fighting

Concept
Semantic Field

Warfare and hunting

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

戦, 闘

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms