A fixture or controlling apparatus, a faucet, valve or tap, most prominently of a washbasin or sink. · A mechanical part being of an auxiliary nature. · The supporting framework of a sculpture.
köken: A word from the same stem as heleä (“bright (e.g. of a sound)”) and helistä (“to clink, jingle, tingle”); thus a sound-symbolic word. Morphologically possibly a back-formation.