Kalma

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n. stay, staying, remaining, arrearage, flunk, survival

[Other] "Smell of the Corpse." The Finno-Ugric goddess of death and the dead. Her house was guarded by Surma, a monstrous animal with ever-open jaws, who would seize and devour human beings at her order.

"staying; remaining; remaining from; handed down (from); dating from"