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Person: 人 Rest: 休 (person leaning against a tree)

• hypertele-Xii 4y ago
  So you can't say "rest" without mentioning a tree? Finnish is funny in similar ways due to its ubiquitous forests. To "hunt" is "metsästää", "metsä" being "forest" the place you went to look for food.
  • CRConrad 4y ago
    You can say you metsästää for mushrooms (and other edibles) in the forest too, though, can't you? So maybe it's actually more of a direct correspondence to "forage". And, is that perhaps derived from / related to "forest"? (Or fodder?)
    • thematrixturtle 4y ago
      Not really, metsästää implies hunting for living things. There's a dedicated verb for mushroom foraging, sienestää, or you can say sienimetsässä, "in the mushroom forest".
    • hypertele-Xii 4y ago
      > can say you metsästää for mushrooms Someone with a quirky personality might say that :)
      • CRConrad 4y ago
        Who, me? ;-) Nah, OK, so it seems I've misunderstood that then. Hei, vasta 27 v tässä pakkosuomen maassa...