Pikku Punapippuri: Wordless Wednesday

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Wordless Wednesday

8 comments:

Katnip Lounge said...: Insert treats here...; 28 September 2016 at 05:16
Katnip Lounge said...: Insert treats here...; 28 September 2016 at 05:17
Spitty-the-Kitty said...: Do you think a little birdie might drop in there?; 28 September 2016 at 05:50
Summer said...: Wordless but not toothless or tongueless!; 28 September 2016 at 07:03
Eastside Cats said...: Such lovely floofiness, Puna!; 28 September 2016 at 17:39
Memories of Eric and Flynn said...: Waiting for something tasty to come along?; 28 September 2016 at 23:56
Kari said...: I am king, hear me roar!; 29 September 2016 at 02:42
Mark's Mews (Ayla, Iza, and Marley) said...: Roar or Yawn?; 29 September 2016 at 04:47

Introduction

Sanavarasto - vocabulary

Ä & Ö are the last letters of the Finnish alphabet!

broileri - chicken

eläinkoti - animal home, rescue

emo - mother cat

gummi - god mother, benefactor

hernekeitto - pea soup

hirvi - elk/moose

hyvä - fine, good

ilves - lynx

isoisänisä - great grandfather

joulukuusi - Christmas tree

jänis - hare

kalkkuna

- turkey

kilpikonna - tortoise

kirjosieppo - pied flycatcher
kissa
-cat

kissanhiekka - cat litter
kissanminttu - catnip

kummi - 'god mother'
kuningas - king

Latz - Felix (a brand of cat food)
lohi - salmon

loistava - splendid

löylyt - sauna steam

mammanpoika - mummy's boy, soft lad
merikotka - sea eagle

merirosvo - pirate

moro - hi

muikku - little fish, like whitebait

munat - balls, ie what are missing from our mancats

orava - squirrel

paksu - fat

pallo - ball; palloja - balls
pantteri - panther
peppu - bottom

perheeni - my family
pikku pentu - little kitten
pissakilpailu - weeing competition
poika -boy
poro - reindeer
pulla - unbelievably delicious Finnish cake/cinnamon bun

punapippurinkusema - the distance between peemails for Punapippuri; from the old Finnish distance of poronkuusema - the distance between reindeer pees when pulling a sled.
puolihäntää - half tail

revontulet - northern lights

ripuli - diarrhoea
Ruotsi - Sweden

röntgen
- X ray

serkku - cousin
siili - hedgehog
sinitiainen - blue tit
sisko - sister
sisu - an untranslatable Finnish word meaning resilience or stamina; it is sisu that makes a Finncat stand for hours in the snow, watching for a solitary mouse.
suomalaista kalaa - Finnish fish
Suomi - Finland

syysloma- autumn holiday

talitiainen - great tit

tervetuloa - welcome

todella paska - really crap
tonnikala - tuna fish
tosi fiksu poika - a really clever boy
tuulikaappi - a wind-lock: a little double-doored tunnel
täti - aunt
töpöhäntä-tailless
ukko - pop, old man
varpunen - sparrow
veli - brother
ystävämme eläinlääkäri - our friend the vet

ystävänpäivä - friendship day
Äiti - mum, mother - our servant who must be humoured

Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Wordless Wednesday

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