kylmäverihevonen

Finnish

Etymology

kylmä (“cold”) +‎ veri (“blood”) +‎ hevonen (“horse”), Calque of French cheval à sang froid (“work horse”) via Swedish kallblodshäst (“work horse”), according to old classification of horses in which strong and heavy workhorses were considered cold-blooded and faster and more lightly-built breeds were considered warm-blooded.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkylmæˌʋeriˌheʋonen/,
• Rhymes: -eʋonen
• Syllabification^(key): kyl‧mä‧ve‧ri‧he‧vo‧nen

Noun

kylmäverihevonen

1. draft horse, draught horse, dray horse, cold-blooded horse (type of horse that is tall and heavily muscled, making it a good workhorse)

Declension

Related terms

• lämminverihevonen
• täysiverihevonen

See also

• suomenhevonen

Further reading

• “kylmäverihevonen”, 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