kuukkeli

Etymology
Probably a secondary variant of, which is a Samic borrowing. There are many dialectal variants, some showing, others or , with a wide variety of endings (, , etc.), as is common for older names for birds, and some onomatopoeic influence is likely. Alternatively the word itself may simply be onomatopoeic.

Noun

 * 1) Siberian jay,
 * 2) gray jay bird of the genus