elohopea
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]elo (“living”) + hopea (“silver”), perhaps a calque of Latin argentum vivum (literally “living silver”). Coined by Finnish folk poetry researcher, translator and journalist Julius Krohn in 1860.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]elohopea
- mercury, quicksilver (Hg)
- (figuratively) thermometer (in which the level of mercury indicates temperature)
- Elohopea näyttää kahtakymmentä astetta.
- The thermometer reading is twenty degrees.
- (literally, “The mercury indicates twenty degrees.”)
- (figuratively) lively thing or person, especially a child
Declension
[edit]Inflection of elohopea (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten | |
partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | elohopea | elohopeat | |
accusative | nom. | elohopea | elohopeat |
gen. | elohopean | ||
genitive | elohopean | elohopeiden elohopeitten elohopeain rare | |
partitive | elohopeaa elohopeata |
elohopeita | |
inessive | elohopeassa | elohopeissa | |
elative | elohopeasta | elohopeista | |
illative | elohopeaan | elohopeisiin elohopeihin | |
adessive | elohopealla | elohopeilla | |
ablative | elohopealta | elohopeilta | |
allative | elohopealle | elohopeille | |
essive | elohopeana | elohopeina | |
translative | elohopeaksi | elohopeiksi | |
abessive | elohopeatta | elohopeitta | |
instructive | — | elohopein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hypernyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- (mercury): Category:fi:Chemical elements, Category:fi:Metals
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “elohopea”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish compound terms
- Finnish terms calqued from Latin
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish terms coined by Julius Krohn
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 5-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/opeɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/opeɑ/5 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish korkea-type nominals
- fi:Chemical elements
- fi:Metals