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(agriculture,historical) A traditional Scandinavian and Russian grain drying and threshing cabin, in which the grain was dried in the heat and smoke of a chimneyless stove and then threshed on the floor.
1924 April 30, “Entisaikain oloja Ähtärissä [Ähtäri in the Old Days]”, in Vaasa, volume 22, number 100, Vaasa: Vaasa Oy, →ISSN, page 3:
Elot kuivattiin riihessä, puitiin varstoilla ja viskattiin viskimellä, jolloin akanat erotettiin; loppu puhdistettiin pohtimella.
The crops were dried in a riihi, threshed with flails and winnowed with a winnowing shovel, which is when the chaff was separated; the rest was cleaned with a winnowing basket.
(by extension, in compounds)workshop(collaborative effort to some end)
“riihi”, 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 2023-07-03
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
