kaasu

== Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from a Sami language (compare Southern Sami gaasoe (“cold mist”)), from Proto-Samic *kāsō, from Proto-Uralic *käsä (“dew”). Originally a dialectal word meaning “(cold) mist, fog”, adopted as an equivalent of gas by Finnish physician and author Samuel Roos in 1845, by phonetic similarity with Dutch gas (whence words in many other European languages, such as English gas). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑːsu/, [ˈkɑ̝ːs̠u] Rhymes: -ɑːsu Syllabification(key): kaa‧su Hyphenation(key): kaa‧su === Noun === kaasu gas (state of matter) gas pedal Synonym: kaasupoljin (colloquial) laughing gas (particularly as an intoxicant) Synonym: ilokaasu ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== kaste (“dew”) === References === === Further reading === “kaasu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023 === Anagrams === kauas, sukaa