kehä

From Proto-Finnic *kehä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *keččä. Cognates include Northern Sami giessat (“to wrap”), Erzya чи (či) and Moksha ши (ši, “sun, day”), Eastern Mari кече (keče, “sun, day”), Udmurt киш (kiš, “snare”), Komi-Zyrian киш (kiš, “ring, halo”), Eastern Khanty кӫтш (kø̈tš), Northern Mansi кис (kis, “hoop”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkehæ/,
• Rhymes: -ehæ
• Hyphenation^(key): ke‧hä

kehä

1. circle, ring (enclosure, perimeter, a circular arrangement of something)
2. (in compounds) circular (resembling a circle in some aspect)

   kehämääritelmä ― circular definition

3. rim (edge around a circular object)
4. (sports) ring (arena for boxing and other combat sports; also figuratively)
5. (mathematics) circumference, circle (line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional object)
6. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

   Synonym: halo

   Hyponyms: auringonkehä, kuunkehä

7. (botany) perianth (sterile parts of a flower)
8. (graph theory) cycle (closed walk or path)
9. (heraldry) orle, tressure
10. (beekeeping) frame

• (circle): ympyrä, rengas
• (halo): halo
• (mathematics): piiri
• (graph theory): sykli

• “kehä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• ehkä, ähke