farmer, peasant (non-dependent person who earns his living by cultivating his own or rented land) · a person who lived off (by farming) land they owned (or later, in some cases, rented); (roughly) a yeoman, husbandman · synonym of sotilas (“pawn”)
çekim: çoğul talonpojat · tamlayan talonpojan
köken: talon (“(of) farm, farmstead, homestead”, genitive) + poika (“son, boy”). The term may have initially referred to those who earned their living on farms as opposed to foragers.