luku

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • number, count, quantity
  • chapter one of the main section into which the text of a book is divided, one of the main part in a legal statute
  • (law) chapter division in a legal statute
  • (in compounds) reading
  • (grammar) number
  • together with a year, used to indicate decade, century or sometimes even millennium

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *luku suffix from Finnish lukea (read, count).

Origin

Finnish

lukea

Gloss

read, count

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