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Spickoja.

Borrowed from Russian спичка (spička).

picka

  1. match

    • 1934, V. I. Junus, Lukukirja inkeroisia oppikoteja vart (neljäs klassa), Leningrad: Riikin Izdatelstvo Kirja, page 105:

      Hää hyppäis kattiloin päälle, nosti kannen, cirkoi pickan ja näki, jot hoitoklapanat olliit kääritty kiin rautavitsaal.

      He jumped onto the cooking pot, lifted the lid, struck a match and saw, that the safety valves were wrapped in iron twigs.

    • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 45:

      Ei hooli karassia eikä pickoja.

      No need in kerosene or in matches.
Declension of picka (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative picka pickat
genitive pickan pickoin
partitive pickaa pickoja
illative pickaa pickoi
inessive pickaas pickois
elative pickast pickoist
allative pickalle pickoille
adessive pickaal pickoil
ablative pickalt pickoilt
translative pickaks pickoiks
essive pickanna, pickaan pickoinna, pickoin
exessive1) pickant pickoint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 412

From Old Swedish pikka, from Old Norse, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną. Compare English pick.

picka (present pickar, preterite pickade, supine pickat, imperative picka)

  1. to peck, to pick (of a bird, or with a pointed instrument)

picka c

  1. (colloquial) a pistol (gun)
    Synonyms: (colloquial) pickadoll, (colloquial) puffra, pistol