Finnish

Alternative forms

• askele (rare)

Noun

askel

1. step, pace (advance or movement made from one foot to the other)
2. step, pace (distance covered in a step)
3. step (small space or distance)
4. step (proceeding; measure; action; act)
5. step (music: interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale)
6. step (kinematics: change of position effected by a motion of translation)

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• laske

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *aśke (~ -lV), *aćke ( ~ -lV).

Noun

askel ‎(genitive askelen, partitive askeldu)

1. step
2. pace