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taivas

Taivas is a Finnish noun meaning the sky or heaven. In ordinary use it designates the region above the Earth—the atmosphere and, beyond it, space. In religious and literary contexts taivas can also refer to heaven or paradise.

In everyday language, taivas describes observable phenomena such as the color of the sky, cloud cover, or

In science and culture, taivas is used to discuss astronomy and cosmology as seen from the ground,

Etymology and related languages: Taivas is a native Finnic word; cognates are attested in related Finnic languages,

See also: sky, heaven, cosmos.

the
appearance
of
the
sun
and
stars.
It
appears
in
many
common
expressions
and
compound
forms,
for
example
taivaansininen
(sky
blue)
and
taivaanranta
(horizon).
as
well
as
to
personify
the
heavens
in
poetry
and
hymns.
In
Finnish
Christian
tradition,
taivas
often
denotes
heaven
or
the
dwelling
place
of
the
divine.
reflecting
a
shared
Proto-Finnic
origin.