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poronkusema

POR-on-KOO-seh-mah[ˈporoŋˌkusemɑ]

an old Lapland measure: how far a reindeer goes before it stops to pee

Closest in English: distance, league, mile. None of them covers it.

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The story

Poro is reindeer and kusema its peeing: the old Lapland unit for how far a reindeer could pull a sled before it had to stop, roughly seven and a half kilometres. It was never exact, which was rather the point. English measured with the league, about an hour's walk.

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  1. Which language is it from?Finnish
  2. What does it literally say?A reindeer's pee
  3. Where would you hear it?An old Lapland road without signs
  4. What does it mean?A reindeer's range between stops

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