pudas

Etymology
. The only certain cognate is 🇨🇬.


 * On one hand, the word has been compared with 🇨🇬 and related Sami words, but the phonological correspondence is not regular, which speaks against common inheritance. In this case, the Finnish word would probably be borrowed from Sami.
 * On the other hand, the word has been compared with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, with the hypothetical root reconstructed as . In this case, the Finnish and Sami words would not be related.

Noun

 * 1) A fork of a river that rejoins back to the main river; an anabranch.