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Tech/Engineering - Ships, Sailing, Maritime | | Finnish term or phrase: Telso | A nautical museum display:
2. Telso
Telso oli kätevä työkalu esimerkiksi ruuhen tai haapion kovertamiseen.
The Swedish translator says it's "dexel" in Swedish. |
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| | English translation:Adze | Explanation:
You can find an article of it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adze
By the way, the tool is 'teslo' in Russian, and the term is quite apparently loaned from Russian. But the Finns have never liked anything difficult to pronounce and even here 's' and 'l' have been changed to make the word come easier out of the mouth.
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-01-14 19:36:49 GMT)
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Here is glossary where all (telso, adze, dexel) are mentioned.
http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~jruusu/wwgloss.xml |
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