evakko
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from evakoida, a variant of evakuoida with a simplified vowel cluster. Coined and popularized around 1940 at the end of the Winter War.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]evakko
- evacuee (evacuated person)
- Suomi vastaanotti Karjalasta yli 400.000 evakkoa.
- Finland received more than 400,000 evacuees from Karelia.
- (chiefly in locational cases and compounds) the state of being an evacuee, translated e.g. with evacuation or evacuate
- evakkopaikka ― evacuation site
- Perheeni oli evakossa Siilinjärvellä.
- My family was in evacuation in Siilinjärvi.
- Kun sota syttyi, jouduimme evakkoon.
- When the war broke out we were evacuated.
- Pääsimme evakosta vuonna 1947.
- Our evacuation ended in 1947.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of evakko (Kotus type 4*A/laatikko, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | evakko | evakot | |
genitive | evakon | evakkojen evakoiden evakoitten | |
partitive | evakkoa | evakkoja evakoita | |
illative | evakkoon | evakkoihin evakoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | evakko | evakot | |
accusative | nom. | evakko | evakot |
gen. | evakon | ||
genitive | evakon | evakkojen evakoiden evakoitten | |
partitive | evakkoa | evakkoja evakoita | |
inessive | evakossa | evakoissa | |
elative | evakosta | evakoista | |
illative | evakkoon | evakkoihin evakoihin | |
adessive | evakolla | evakoilla | |
ablative | evakolta | evakoilta | |
allative | evakolle | evakoille | |
essive | evakkona | evakkoina | |
translative | evakoksi | evakoiksi | |
abessive | evakotta | evakoitta | |
instructive | — | evakoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “evakko”, 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