tunturi

Borrowed from Sami, compare Kildin Sami тӯнтар (tūntar), from Proto-Samic *tuontër. Doublet of tanner, tantere, and tundra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtunturi/, [ˈt̪un̪t̪uri]
• Rhymes: -unturi
• Syllabification^(key): tun‧tu‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): tun‧tu‧ri

tunturi

1. fell; a mountain belonging to the Scandinavian Mountains or otherwise located in or around Northern Finland or, less commonly, some other parts of Northern Europe

• The word tunturi is used of mountains belonging to the Scandinavian Mountain Ridge, which forms the "backbone" of the Scandinavian peninsula, and of rounded bare hills/mountains of northern Finland and Kola peninsula, and sometimes of similar mountains of Iceland. Other mountains of the world are generally called vuori.
• The Finns like to translate tunturi into English as fell (instead of mountain) probably because the mountains that tunturi refers to resemble the fells of England, and because fell is of Scandinavian origin. The corresponding Scandinavian word (e.g. Norwegian Bokmål fjell, Norwegian Nynorsk fjell and Swedish fjäll) refers to the same mountains as tunturi does.

• “tunturi”, 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