Minkä takia pellava on pellava

Why is flax called pellava? (englanti)3/2002 (106)Why is flax called pellava? In the Eastern and Northern Finnic languages, the term used to denote the flax plant has the stem pellava-: Fin. dial. pellava, pella|vas, -ves, pellova, pellovain(en), pellovas, pellain(en), pellavaittiin, pelva(a)s; Izh....

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Main Author: Oja, Vilja
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Finnish
Published: Kotikielen Seura 2002
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/virittaja/article/view/40194