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Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *äimä, from Proto-Uralic *äjmä.[1]
Noun
äimä
- A large needle shaped for working with tough materials, such as a leather needle or sailmaker's needle.
- (dialectal) any type of needle
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- ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “äimä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
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Etymology 2
Probably borrowed from Sami, from Proto-Samic *eajmē.
Adjective
äimä
- astonished; used chiefly idiomatically in the expression olla äimänä (“to be astonished”), and as root of derived terms
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