vaski

Finnish

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Definitions
  • (archaic) copper
  • (archaic) bronze; in this sense still living in vaskikello (a bell especially church-bell made of bronze)
  • (archaic) brass; in this sense still living in musical terminology, e.g. vaskipuhallin (brass instrument).
  • (music) In plural (vasket), the brass section of an orchestra.

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Finnic *vaski inherited from Proto-Uralic *waśke.

Origin

Proto-Uralic

*waśke

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