satakieli

sata (“hundred”) +‎ kieli (“tongue”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑtɑˌkie̯li/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝ˌk̟ie̞̯li]
• Rhymes: -ieli
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧ta‧kie‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): sata‧kieli

satakieli

1. thrush nightingale, sprosser, Luscinia luscinia
2. any bird in the genus Luscinia; nightingale, robin, rubythroat, bluethroat; (in the plural) the genus Luscinia
3. (loosely) synonym of etelänsatakieli (“common nightingale, nightingale, rufous nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos”)

satakieli is often loosely translated as “nightingale”, but the English term nightingale as a species refers usually to Luscinia megarhynchos, which does not normally appear in Finland and is properly called etelänsatakieli in Finnish. The species that Finnish satakieli refers to is Luscinia luscinia, the thrush nightingale.

• “satakieli”, 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 3 July 2023