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    1. Because something like 70% of the male population has been a kipinämikko at some point in their lives due to compulsory military service.

    2. Well one is very unofficial combination of two words, literally spark Mikko, Mikko being a male name.

      The other one translates to fire watchman.

      A lot of finnish words are combinations of other words.

    3. Tulivartiomies is the „official“ term but no-one ever uses it because in the army it is always either the kipinämikko, or formally the lähivartiomies. Tulivartiomies would only look after the fire, but lähivartiomies also guards the immediate area around the fire/tent.

    4. AuroraBorrelioosi on

      The synonym is the formal word, kipinämikko is military slang, every country’s armed forces has that and the names are all silly because soldiers are a bunch of immature crayon eaters.

    5. One is slang the other is the official name :p and it’s really nice to keep warm.

    6. We have at least two words for everything. Preferably, they also meant something else, depending on the context. We also like to mix in double letters. The meaning can be totally different depending also if it’s a double or single letter in the middle of the words. We like to keep foreigners on their toes when they try to learn Finnish language.

    7. Coloeus_Monedula on

      First one (”kipinämikko”) is slang and could be translated as something like ”sparktender” kind of like ”bartender” but for the spark.

      Second one is official military expression (”tulivartiomies”) that translates into something like ”firewatchman”.

      Seeing as most men do the reserve military service in Finland, it means that most guys also have experience of being the kipinämikko at some point in their service.

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