pesäpallo

== English == === Noun === pesäpallo (uncountable) A sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball. ==== Translations ==== == Finnish == === Etymology === pesä (“nest, base”) +‎ pallo (“ball”), in which pesä may represent a phono-semantic matching of English base; see it for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpesæˌpɑlːo/, [ˈpe̞s̠æˌpɑ̝lːo̞] Rhymes: -ɑlːo Syllabification(key): pe‧sä‧pal‧lo Hyphenation(key): pesä‧pallo === Noun === pesäpallo (sports) pesäpallo, "Finnish baseball"; a sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball Synonym: pesis the ball used in this game, similar to a baseball ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Swedish: boboll (calque) === Further reading === “pesäpallo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023