robjh
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You are absolutely right - it was me that typed in the ö, and google translate accepts it with or without. I tend to forget that in Finnish (as in Hungarian) an -i- may be ignored for vowel harmony.Being really, really picky it should be kaksio not kaksiö (Vowel harmony: with or without dots)
And yes, it would appear that there is such a thing as a kolmio but it stops there.
Staying massively off topic, I noticed in another thread I that Orbea make a bike called a katu. Katu means street in Finnish. Finnish is taking over the world.
I did notice though that this pattern (numeral+o/ö) carries on for three and four, giving kolmio=triangle and neliö=square. It seems to change from five though, as pentagon, hexagon are viisikulmio, kuusikulmio etc.
But yes we are getting OT here - maybe we need to start a Finnish vocabulary or Vowel Harmony thread