palkki

Finnish

pronunciation
Definitions
  • beam long piece of timber, metal or concrete used in construction as horizontal support
  • horizontal bar on top or bottom of a newspaper page or article, television screen etc
  • (music) beam horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value
  • (heraldry) bend strip from dexter chief (upper right corner) to sinister base of the shield
  • (telecommunications) bar of signal, etc.

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish balk derived from Proto-Germanic *balkô (beam, balk).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*balkô

Gloss

beam, balk

Concept
Semantic Field

The house

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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