neekeri

Etymology
Until the second half of the 19th century, this was a direct loan of without adaptation to Finnish phonology, at least in writing, which rarely happens in Finnish. Nevertheless, the form neekeri was no doubt almost immediately used in speaking, long before it was used in writing since Finnish seldom differentiates between voiced and unvoiced plosives and since an /i/ is usually suffixed to foreign words ending in a consonant. The Swedish word came from.

Noun

 * 1)  nigger person with dark brown skin
 * 2)  negro person of African descent
 * 3)  journalist
 * 4)  a person who performs hard or menial work

Usage notes

 * Although originally non-pejorative, use of this term is now chiefly interpreted as offensive.