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Pulled Oats and Other New Compound Words

Three quarters of new Finnish words are compound words. For example, concern about the climate has given rise to dozens of them. There are numerous words beginning with climate- (ilmasto-), ranging from climate change and climate agreement to climate refugees, climate skeptics and climate anxiety.
 

One of the new words is nyhtökaura (“pulled oats”). Its starting point is the American king of meat dishes, Pulled pork, which in Finnish was translated as nyhtöpossu (“pulled pork”). The word nyhtö comes from the somewhat humorously sounding verb nyhtää, meaning “to pull apart.” Following the same model, more dishes have since been coined, such as nyhtöleipä (pulled bread), nyhtösieni (pulled mushroom) and nyhtösilakka (pulled Baltic herring).

They all convey the same message: replace your pork with a more ecological alternative, and the world will be saved.

 

https://www.culturalist.fi/teksti/nyhtoekauraa-ja-muita-uusia-yhdyssanoja

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