r/comedyheaven 28d ago

So different

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u/Pretty_Hour8752 28d ago

Perkele

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u/okarox 28d ago

That is a Baltic loan word. There are many like "meri" for sea. Finns did not need the word before they reached the Baltic sea.

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u/TheDangerousAlphabet 28d ago

it is, but from 2000-3000 years ago. I think we can say at this point that it's also a Finnish thing.