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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *erä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *erä (“apart”). According to Koivulehto (1999), possibly an old borrowing from Proto-Indo-Iranian *er-.
Pronunciation
Noun
erä
- batch (quantity of anything produced at one operation)
- lot (separate portion; a number of things taken collectively)
- Ellipsis of maksuerä (“instalment, partial payment”).
- (accounting) Ellipsis of tilierä (“item, entry”).
- (sports) a subdivision of game time (can be a time-limited part of a match between two parties or, where the number of contestants exceeds the capacity of the sports facillity, a qualifying competition between a subset of contestants, the translation into English varies by sport)
- (ice hockey) period
- (soccer) half
- (basketball) quarter or half, depending on rules applied
- (boxing) round
- (tennis, volleyball) set
- (squash) game
- (athletics) heat
- (polo) chukker
- (curling) end
- (rare, hunting) game, catch
- (archaic) wilderness, especially one that is good hunting ground.
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References
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
- ^ Koivulehto, Jorma. Verba mutuata: quae vestigia antiquissimi cum Germanis aliisque Indo-Europaeis contactus in linguis Fennicis reliquerint (1999). Edited by Klaas Ph. Ruppel. SUST 237.
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