toonela

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish tuonela during the 19th century.

Noun

toonela (genitive toonela, partitive toonelat)

  1. underworld; the place where people go after dying according to the Finnic mythology.
  2. (figuratively, poetic) death
    Ta on toonelasse läinud.
    He's dead. (lit. "He's gone to the underworld")

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