esirippu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]esi- (“fore-”) + rippua (“to hang”, dialectal form of riippua) + -u; attested since 1544[1], originally in the sense of "dividing curtain" or "veil".[2] Possible calque of Swedish förhängsle or förhänge. In its modern sense, coined by Finnish author and journalist Pietari Hannikainen in 1845.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]esirippu
- curtain (piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of esirippu (Kotus type 1*B/valo, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | esirippu | esiriput | |
genitive | esiripun | esirippujen | |
partitive | esirippua | esirippuja | |
illative | esirippuun | esirippuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | esirippu | esiriput | |
accusative | nom. | esirippu | esiriput |
gen. | esiripun | ||
genitive | esiripun | esirippujen | |
partitive | esirippua | esirippuja | |
inessive | esiripussa | esiripuissa | |
elative | esiripusta | esiripuista | |
illative | esirippuun | esirippuihin | |
adessive | esiripulla | esiripuilla | |
ablative | esiripulta | esiripuilta | |
allative | esiripulle | esiripuille | |
essive | esirippuna | esirippuina | |
translative | esiripuksi | esiripuiksi | |
abessive | esiriputta | esiripuitta | |
instructive | — | esiripuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Mikael Agricola (1544) Rucouskiria (in Finnish), Stockholm: Amund Laurentsson, →OCLC, quoting Hebrews 10:20: “ſen eſirip⸗ pun cautta [sen esiripun kautta] ― through the veil”
- ^ “esirippu”, in Vanhan kirjasuomen sanakirja [Dictionary of Old Literary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, incomplete, continuously updated), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten keskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2021, →ISSN, retrieved 2024-09-28.
Further reading
[edit]- “esirippu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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
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- Finnish terms prefixed with esi-
- Finnish terms suffixed with -u
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms coined by Pietari Hannikainen
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ipːu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ipːu/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals