toonela

== Estonian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Finnish tuonela at the end of the 19th century. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈtoˑnelɑ/, [ˈtoˑnelɑ] Rhymes: -oˑnelɑ Hyphenation: too‧ne‧la === Noun === toonela (genitive toonela, partitive toonelat) (Finnic mythology) a mythical place where all people go after death, equivalent to the underworld Synonym: manala toonela teele minema (idiomatic, poetic) ― to die (literally, “to embark on the road of toonela”) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === References === toonela in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut) “toonela”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009