kuori

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • shale
  • skin of an onion, potato, sausage, cooked milk etc.
  • peel of a fruit
  • shell of an egg, snail, nut etc.
  • test of a marine invertebrate, e.g. sea urchin
  • husk, hull, cod of a seed, corn ear etc.
  • pod, cod of pea etc.
  • bark of a tree
  • crust of the Earth, of bread
  • envelope
  • case, casing, cover of a lock or some-such
  • (mental) shell
  • (physics) shell such as electron shell
  • (anatomy) cortex

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *koori inherited from Proto-Uralic *kare.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*kare

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