koiranilma
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of koiran (“dog's”) + ilma (“weather”). One explanation is that since dogs were used to guard the house and stayed outdoors regardless of the weather, the idiom would have developed from a meaning such as "a weather that only a dog has to bear".
Similar idioms are also found in other European languages, such as German Hundewetter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]koiranilma
Declension
[edit]Inflection of koiranilma (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | koiranilma | koiranilmat | ||
genitive | koiranilman | koiranilmojen | ||
partitive | koiranilmaa | koiranilmoja | ||
illative | koiranilmaan | koiranilmoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | koiranilma | koiranilmat | ||
accusative | nom. | koiranilma | koiranilmat | |
gen. | koiranilman | |||
genitive | koiranilman | koiranilmojen koiranilmain rare | ||
partitive | koiranilmaa | koiranilmoja | ||
inessive | koiranilmassa | koiranilmoissa | ||
elative | koiranilmasta | koiranilmoista | ||
illative | koiranilmaan | koiranilmoihin | ||
adessive | koiranilmalla | koiranilmoilla | ||
ablative | koiranilmalta | koiranilmoilta | ||
allative | koiranilmalle | koiranilmoille | ||
essive | koiranilmana | koiranilmoina | ||
translative | koiranilmaksi | koiranilmoiksi | ||
abessive | koiranilmatta | koiranilmoitta | ||
instructive | — | koiranilmoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “koiranilma”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02