tela

Finnish

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Definitions
  • One of a set of round logs used as support to keep something, such as a boat or a pile of firewood, from touching directly the ground, or to help move a large object by rolling it over the logs.
  • (by extension) A place where something is left or stored; usually in adessive, ablative or allative plural.
  • roller, cylinder
  • track short of telaketju - "caterpillar track"
  • platen part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made
  • platen part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *tela derived from Proto-Germanic *þelą.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*þelą

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