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  • This is a word that even the Finns consider as a bit odd. No one ever uses it because it means something about 'wedding night intuition', but the children think it's funny because it has so many vowels in a row.

    November 10, 2008

  • Is that about which presents to unwrap first?

    November 10, 2008

  • Well, my dictionary says that 'aie' means 'intuition', 'purpose', 'plan'. And then 'hääyö' means 'wedding night', of course. So, I guess you can say it's about which presents to unwrap first.

    November 10, 2008

  • It may bear mentioning that y in Finnish is a vowel, equivalent to German ü, French u. This word is like whalesong.

    November 13, 2008

  • That's correct. The English y whereas is equivalent to Finnish j, at least when it's pronounsed like in the word 'you', and sometimes to Finnish i.

    //Edit: Oh, I just noticed that I have been expressing myself a bit oddly. I meant in my first comment that the rought translation is 'wedding night intuition' not that it's something about it.

    November 15, 2008