18 May 2014

empty is hytsä

hytsä = empty (adjective) (some things Google found for "hytsa": a rare term; HYTSA Estudios y Proyectos S.A. is a Consulting Agency in Argentina; gaming character names; Hytsa Levante SL is a yarns and threads company in Spain; similar Hytta is the name of a place in Norway)

Word derivation for "empty":
Basque = huts, Finnish = tyhjä
Miresua = hytsä

The word empty occurs once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when Alice falls down the rabbit hole.
She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE', but to her great disappointment it was empty....

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