postimestari

Finnish

noun
Definitions
  • (archaic) postmaster head of a post office
  • a honorary title of the fourteenth rank granted by the to merited people who work or worked for the post office

Etymology

Compound from Finnish posti (mail, post) + Finnish mestari (master, champion)derived from Swedish postmästare (postmaster).

Origin

Swedish

postmästare

Gloss

postmaster

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