Noun: kantele
| Singular | kantele |
| Plural | kanteles |
Sample Sentences
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With his fingers Väinämöinen played / with its strings the kantele rang out […]. [1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XLIV:]
Nouns inflected like kantele
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Finnish kantele. Ultimate etymology contested; see Proto-Finnic *kandël for theories. See: Finnish Nouns '
kantele'.