selkä

From Proto-Finnic *selkä (compare Estonian selg), from Proto-Finno-Permic *śelkä (compare Proto-Samic *čielkē, Eastern Mari шӹлӹж (šÿlÿž, “area of the sacrum”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈselkæ/, [ˈs̠e̞lk̟æ]
• Rhymes: -elkæ
• Hyphenation^(key): sel‧kä

 

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selkä

1. back (the rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly)
2. ridge, spine (line or area on a mountain or hill from which one can descend to at least two separate directions)
3. back, spine (the side where the pages are bound together)
4. open water (expanse of sea or large lake which is distant from shore and devoid of nearby islands or other obstructions)

   Synonym: ulappa

5. watershed area

   Synonyms: vedenjakaja, maanselkä

(below poetic, archaic or dialectal):

• avomeri
• ulappa

• “selkä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[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

 

From Proto-Finnic *selkä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *śelkä. Cognates include Finnish selkä and Estonian selg.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈselkæ/, [ˈs̠e̞lʲk]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈselkæ/, [ˈʃe̞lɡ̊æ]
• Rhymes: -elk, -elkæ
• Hyphenation: sel‧kä

selkä

1. back (of a body)
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 56:

     kirjasuman selkää lööp,

     he puts the backpack on [his] back,

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 74:

     Poika istui hepoisen seläs.

     The boy got on the back of the horse.

2. (poetic) back, end
   • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Okkoi Viistinästä, “1240. Soikkola, Säätinä, III104”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎^[3], volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 1-2:

     Selvälle meren selälle, // Lakialle lainehelle.

     To the fast end of the sea, // To the flat wave.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[4], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 517