kehä

From Proto-Finnic *kehä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *keččä. Cognates include Northern Sami giessat (“to wrap”), Erzya чи (či) and Moksha ши (ši, “sun, day”), Eastern Mari кече (keče, “sun, day”), Udmurt киш (kiš, “snare”), Komi-Zyrian киш (kiš, “ring, halo”), Eastern Khanty кӫтш (kø̈tš), Northern Mansi кис (kis, “hoop”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkehæ/, [ˈk̟e̞ɦæ]
• Rhymes: -ehæ
• Syllabification^(key): ke‧hä
• Hyphenation^(key): ke‧hä

kehä

1. circle, ring (enclosure, perimeter, a circular arrangement of something)
2. (in compounds) circular (resembling a circle in some aspect)

   kehämääritelmä ― circular definition

3. rim (edge around a circular object)
4. (sports) ring (arena for boxing and other combat sports; also figuratively)
5. (mathematics) circumference, circle, perimeter (line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional object; the length of such a line)

   Synonym: piiri

6. halo (atmospheric phenomenon)

   Synonym: halo

   Hyponyms: auringonkehä, kuunkehä

7. (botany) perianth (sterile parts of a flower)
8. (graph theory) cycle (closed walk or path)

   Synonym: sykli

9. (heraldry) orle, tressure
10. (beekeeping) frame
11. (mechanics) race (part of a rolling-element bearing; ring with a groove in which rolling elements ride)

• “kehä”, 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 2 July 2023

• ehkä, ähke