Catio Tales: interspecies friendship

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Thursday, 23 April 2020

Thursday Welcome

Spring is here and Tessie has woken up. Papu dashes over curiously.....

She is very polite - he is amazed. The oldest member of perheemme meets the youngest.

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Sanavarasto - vocabulary

Ä & Ö are the last letters of the Finnish alphabet!

broileri - chicken

eläinkoti - animal home, rescue

hirvi - elk/moose

hyvä - fine, good

ilves - lynx

joulukuusi - Christmas tree

jänis - hare

kalkkuna

- turkey

kilpikonna - tortoise

kissa -cat

kissanhiekka - cat litter
kissanminttu - catnip

kummi - 'god mother'
kuningas - king

Latz - Felix (a brand of cat food)
lohi - salmon

löylyt - sauna steam

mammanpoika - mummy's boy, soft lad
merikotka - sea eagle

muikku - little fish, like whitebait

munat - balls, ie what are missing from our mancats

orava - squirrel

paksu - fat

pallo - ball; palloja - balls
pantteri - panther
peppu - bottom

perheeni - my family
pikku pentu - little kitten
pissakilpailu - weeing competition
poika -boy
poro - reindeer
pulla - unbelievably delicious Finnish cake/cinnamon bun

punapippurinkusema - the distance between peemails for Punapippuri; from the old Finnish distance of poronkuusema- the distance between reindeer pees when pulling a sled.
puolihäntää - half tail

revontulet - northern lights

ripuli - diarrhoea
Ruotsi - Sweden

röntgen
- X ray

serkku - cousin
siili - hedgehog
sinitiainen - blue tit
sisko - sister
sisu - an untranslatable Finnish word meaning resilience or stamina; it is sisu that makes a Finncat stand for hours in the snow, watching for a solitary mouse.
Suomi - Finland

tervetuloa - welcome

todella paska - really crap
tonnikala - tuna fish
tosi fiksu poika - a really clever boy
tuulikaappi - a wind-lock: a little double-doored tunnel
täti - aunt
töpöhäntä-tailless
ystävämme eläinlääkäri - our friend the vet

ystävänpäivä - friendship day

Äiti - mum, mother - our servant who must be humoured

Thursday, 23 April 2020

Thursday Welcome

Our Much Loved King

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