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See also: Rinta

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rinta. Cognate to Estonian rind and also more distantly Northern Sami raddi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrintɑ/, [ˈrin̪t̪ɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -intɑ
  • Syllabification(key): rin‧ta
  • Hyphenation(key): rin‧ta

Noun

rinta

  1. chest, breast, thorax (region of the mammalian body between the neck and the abdomen, especially the front of it)
  2. (usually in the plural) breast (milk-producing organ)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tissi
  3. a projecting front of an inanimate object

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rinta. Cognates include Finnish rinta and Estonian rind.

The semantic shift "chest" > "hillside" is comparable to the Finnish term rinne (hillside).

Pronunciation

Noun

rinta

  1. chest, thorax
  2. Synonym of penger (slope)

Declension

More information Declension of (type 3/kana, nt-nn gradation), singular ...

Derived terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 478
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