tehdas

Etymology
. Related to 🇨🇬. The modern sense is first attested in, while in the folk language, the word had a variety of (regionally varying) meanings, including "cow stall" (mainly Savonia and North Karelia, but also parts of Tavastia and Ladoga Karelia), "plant bed" (parts of Tavastia and Satakunta) and "leg room for a boat rower" (Northern Finland). Theories include:
 * , but the -d- is unaccounted for (the stem of is ). In addition,  generally forms adjectives, not nouns (albeit some nouns are also known, e.g. ). The modern sense "factory" is probably also recent and probably inspired by, even if this is not the origin ot the word.
 * Sometimes considered a borrowing from, , but the semantic shift is unlikely. LÄGLOS rejects this theory.
 * More recently, it has been suggested that the word, alongside (dialectal ), derives from an  borrowing, probably akin to  (whence also possibly 🇨🇬 > ).

Noun

 * 1) factory, mill, plant