tienesti

== Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Swedish þiǣnist, thienst, þiānist (“service, decoration of honor”), from Proto-Germanic *þewanōstaz (“service”). Akin to Swedish tjänst (“service; employment, job, esp. public office”), German Dienst, Dutch dienst. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtie̯nesti/, [ˈt̪ie̞̯ne̞s̠ti] Rhymes: -ienesti Syllabification(key): tie‧nes‧ti Hyphenation(key): tie‧nes‧ti === Noun === tienesti (colloquial) (paid) employment, paid work, wage labor (in the plural) earnings, income ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “tienesti”, 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