pesäpallo

pesäpallo (uncountable)

1. A sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball.

pesä (“nest”) +‎ pallo (“ball”); the initial word was likely also chosen due to sounding somewhat similar to English base.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesæˌpɑlːo/, [ˈpe̞s̠æˌpɑ̝lːo̞]
• Rhymes: -ɑlːo
• Hyphenation^(key): pesä‧pallo

pesäpallo

1. (sports) a sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball
2. the ball used in this game, similar to a baseball

• pesis

• → Swedish: boboll (calque)

• “pesäpallo”, 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 2023-07-03