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by pavlov 315 days ago
The other “uu” words in Finnish feel ancient too. When Finnish children are asked to come up with rhymes, these are often the ones they suggest:

luu = bone

kuu = Moon

suu = mouth

muu = other

You can practically imagine the apes in the first act of the movie “2001” coming up with these words to describe their environment.

(The monolith could be a “muu muu”, the Other Other, to distinguish it from the basic “muu” of the other tribe.)

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Belonging here: puu = tree