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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kerägä, derived from kerätä. A variant of dialectal keräjät, and related to obsolete Estonian kära, Ingrian keräjät, Karelian keräjät and Veps kerag.
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Noun
käräjät pl
- (law, historical) a session of a rural district court before the reform of 1993; by extension colloquially a trial
- (historical) thing, Thing (public assembly or judicial council)
- (informal) synonym of käräjäoikeus (“District Court”)
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