nisu
/ˈnisu/
FINCE → TR
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•synonym of vehnä (“wheat”) (Western Finnish, Kainuu) · something baked of wheat, particularly traditional cardamom sweet bread, such as pulla (Western Finnish, Central Finland, Kainuu, American)
Etimoloji
From Proto-Finnic *nisu (compare Estonian nisu, Livonian ni’zzõz, Veps nižu, Votic nisu). Equivalent to nisä (“udder, breast”) + -u; the sense may have originally been "snack", from which "wheat, something made of wheat", or may have evoked a comparison between the white milk secreted from a teat and the light-colored grain. Replaced in the standard language in the 19th century with vehnä, which…