ruoka

From Proto-Finnic *rooka, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *rōkā ("care, attention", later *rōkō). Cognates include Estonian roog, Votic rookõ, Ludian ruog. Compare ruokkia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈruo̯kɑ/, [ˈruo̞̯kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uokɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ruo‧ka
• The ruoa- in inflected forms is generally pronounced as if it were ruua-.

ruoka

1. food (any substance consumed by living organisms to sustain life)

   Synonym: ravinto

   Me tarvitsemme ruokaa, emme aseita.

   We need food, not weapons.

2. meal (food that is prepared and eaten)

   Synonym: ateria

Both of the two ways of inflecting ruoka presented below are regarded as equally acceptable by Kotus, an authority in Finnish language. In practice, the former declension is more common in written language while the latter is more common in spoken language. The pronunciation almost always matches the latter one, however.

• ruokoton

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• “ruoka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[1] (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

• korua, koura, kuroa