Appendix:Finnish homonyms
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The following is a collection of homonyms in the Finnish language. The list only includes words in their uninflected form:
A
[edit]- noun: alpaca
- noun: nickel silver
- noun: ark
- noun: sheet
- noun: aura
- noun: plough
F
[edit]- noun: frieze
- noun: the Frisian language
H
[edit]- noun: haiku
- noun: lingering smell or feeling
- noun: latch
- noun: pasture
- verb: to hug
- verb: to yearn
- noun: grey seal
- noun: hall
- noun: hag
- noun: harp
- adjective: entire (limited to idiomatic usage)
- noun: hilt
- interjection: gee
- noun: weld
J
[edit]- noun: sloop
- noun: yacht
- noun: hunt
- noun: junta
- noun: pile driver
- noun: a Dane (colloquial)
- noun: jute
K
[edit]- noun: auger
- noun: backwoods
- noun: chalice
- noun: lime
- verb: to incline
- verb: to raise in price
- noun: cloth
- noun: traversable woodland
- noun: pawn shop (colloquial)
- noun: rabbit
- noun: a volume unit
- noun: overcoat
- noun: crusty soot
- noun: wool card
- noun: caste
- noun: sauce (dialectal)
- noun: biscuit
- noun: hook (pole with a hook, used to handle logs in water)
- noun: sergeant (colloquial)
- noun: cigarette (colloquial)
- noun: hurry
- noun: thigh (archaic)
- noun: kilo- (colloquially also: kilogram)
- noun: sheen, sunlight
- adjective: nice
- noun: kilt
- adverb: soon
- noun: place, point
- noun: dawn
- noun: moth
- noun: cola
- noun: plough
- noun: freight item
- noun: tomcat
- noun: backpack
- noun: container
- noun: foot (archaic)
- noun: catch
- noun: doghouse
- adjective: decorated, garish
- noun: the Korean language
- noun: chorea
- noun: caraway
- noun: toll, rumble (low, echoing sound)
- noun: apse
- noun: bark, shell, skin, peel, envelope
- noun: cucumber
- noun: throat
- noun: animal fat (dialectal)
- noun: Moon
- pronunciation of "Q"
- adjective: deaf
- noun: rainshower
- numeral: six
- noun: spruce
L
[edit]- noun: bearing
- noun: holly, laurel
- noun: bay
- noun: slaughter
- noun: pier
- noun: winger
- verb: to cease
- verb: to lacquer
- noun: law
- noun: summit
- noun: cloudberry
- noun: lacquer
- noun: pigeon house
- noun: depression
- noun: lama
- noun: to cover with notes
- noun: to run (idiomatic)
- verb: to count
- verb: to put down
- adjective: mild
- noun: a kind of grass (Deschampsia)
- noun: canter, gallop
- noun: onion
- noun: the Livonian language
- noun: vest
- noun: fly (in pants) (usually in plural)
- noun: lychee
- noun: long drink
- noun: tentacle
- noun: ebb
- noun: northwest
- noun: lute
- noun: rag
- noun: flap
- noun: joke (colloquial)
- noun: a Latvian
- noun: pigpen
- noun: gasoline (colloquial)
- noun: a talkative person (colloquial)
- noun: crowd (colloquial)
- noun: loess
M
[edit]- noun: goal
- noun: paint
- noun: marsh
- noun: marshall
- noun: math (colloquial)
- noun: burbot (colloquial)
- noun: mocca
- noun: suede
- noun: mono
- noun: ski boot
- noun: a cubic meter of firewood
- noun: motti
- noun: ant (colloquial)
- noun: teenager (colloquial)
- noun: hunch
- noun: minnow
N
[edit]- noun: frankfurter
- noun: mousetrap
- noun: awl
- noun: kid
- adjective: flexible
- noun: the Norwegian language
O
[edit]- adjective: ochre
- noun: okra
P
[edit]- noun: defenceman (colloquial)
- noun: package, toolbox
- noun: reverse gear (colloquial)
- noun: testicles, balls (usually in plural)
- noun: seat
- noun: parka
- noun: someone pitiful
- noun: bark
- noun: barque
- noun: parking
- noun: flock, school
- noun: loft
- verb: to pamper
- verb: to pass for
- noun: guard duty
- noun: passport
- noun: cartridge (of a bullet)
- noun: industrialist
- noun: lump
- noun: stalemate
- noun: nester
- noun: washer
- noun: silicon
- noun: tooth, spike (archaic)
- adjective: hidden
- noun: diatom
- noun: piece of music
- noun: stove
- noun: frame
- noun: seductee (colloquial)
- noun: to bow
- noun: to pick someone up, to seduce
- noun: bollard
- noun: policeman (colloquial)
- noun: ashes; grounds (usually in plural)
- noun: reindeer
- noun: fortune teller (colloquial)
- noun: pocket inside a shirt or coat (colloquial)
- noun: alcoholic (colloquial]
- noun: puli (dog)
- noun: clock weight
- noun: bundle, packet
- noun: trouser leg
- noun: lingonberry (dialectal)
- noun: pole, stalk
- noun: the Polish language
- noun: laundry
- noun: milestone
- verb: to chatter
- verb: to give off dust
R
[edit]- adjective: raw, brutal
- noun: yard (of ship)
- noun: goat willow
- noun: raita
- noun: stripe
- noun: border
- noun: piece of rubbish
- noun: dragoon
- noun: tarragon
- noun: grating
- noun: rally
- noun: a k. of song
- verb: to plaster
- verb: to rap (alternate spelling of räpätä)
- noun: driving wheel
- noun: funnel
- noun: record (colloquial)
- noun: truck
- noun: chain
- noun: rune
- noun: rice
- noun: ream (of paper)
- verb: to be enough
- verb: to gain a crust of frost (of a body of water)
- adverb: broken
- noun: sulfur
- adjective: broken
- noun: gland
- adjective: strong, sturdy
- noun: risk
S
[edit]- noun, verb: (to) aim
- noun, verb: (to) sieve
- noun: spouse
- noun: vesper bat
- noun: blueness
- noun: sine
- noun: lilac (variant of syreeni)
- noun: siren
- noun: cotyledon
- noun: locust
- noun: short comedy
- noun: specifics (colloquial, usually in plural)
- noun: steppe
- noun: tapdancing
- noun: protection
- noun: provider
- noun: temperature over zero in winter
- noun: back of an animal
- noun: luck (colloquial)
- noun: mosquito
- noun: osprey (variant of sääksi)
T
[edit]- noun: pill (colloquial)
- noun: taboo
- noun: hide
- noun: tackle
- noun: axle (dialectal)
- noun: oak
- noun: buckwheat
- noun: a Tatar
- noun: termite
- noun: thermite
- verb: to pad
- verb: to stop (dialectal)
- noun: end (dialectal)
- noun: top (piece of clothing)
- noun: block, obstruction
- noun: tuft, wad
- noun: fur coat
- noun: the Turkish language
- noun: chub (fish)
- noun: muzzle
- noun: idea, thought
- noun: inch
- verb: to use an ice axe
- verb: to fill in (for someone) (colloquial)
- noun: ringed plover
- noun: tulle
V
[edit]- noun: danger
- noun: tree-covered hill
- noun: advice (idiomatic usage only)
- noun: grandfather
- noun: roll (metalwork)
- noun: waltz
- noun: kind of whisk made of birch twigs, used in sauna to enhance the cleaning effect of the bath
- adverb: not until, only
- adjective: subject to taxation
- adjective: Veronese
- noun: pulling
- noun: veto
- noun: quiver
- noun: wine
- noun: cape
- noun: sign pointing to a direction
- adverb: last (colloquial)
- noun: fault
- noun: villa
- noun: wool
- noun: lever (dialectal)
- noun: small money loan (colloquial)
- noun: VIP (colloquial)
- noun: snare drum
- noun: spinning fishing rod
- noun: visor
- noun: vizier
- noun: somersault
- noun: volt
- noun: mountain
- noun: lining (inner fabric in a piece of clothing)
Ä
[edit]- noun: ace
- noun: the letter S, an S-shape