Kessi (Kess)

Net bag (bag for putting nets in), backpack, pouch, wallet or basket made from birch bark or bast, cf. Hungarian kász-u, ‘a little container or pot made of bark’; both suggested as possibly related to Etruscan cesu, piece, trunk. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also Käba. Not to be confused with Kessu, eponymous partner in Robert Vaidlo’s children’s novel and later television series, Kessu ja Tripp (ja = and).