hillosipuli
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]hillo (“jam”) + sipuli (“onion”); calque of Swedish syltlök (“variety of Allium cepa of which pickled onions are often made”) < sylt (“jam”) + lök (“onion”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hillosipuli
- pearl onion, Allium ampeloprasum var. sectivum (cultivar of wild leek producing small bulbs used primarily for pickling)
- pickled onion, silverskin onion (any small onion used for pickling, usually a variant of the common onion Allium cepa)
- (in the plural) Pickled onions as dish.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of hillosipuli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hillosipuli | hillosipulit | |
genitive | hillosipulin | hillosipulien hillosipuleiden hillosipuleitten | |
partitive | hillosipulia | hillosipuleita hillosipuleja | |
illative | hillosipuliin | hillosipuleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hillosipuli | hillosipulit | |
accusative | nom. | hillosipuli | hillosipulit |
gen. | hillosipulin | ||
genitive | hillosipulin | hillosipulien hillosipuleiden hillosipuleitten | |
partitive | hillosipulia | hillosipuleita hillosipuleja | |
inessive | hillosipulissa | hillosipuleissa | |
elative | hillosipulista | hillosipuleista | |
illative | hillosipuliin | hillosipuleihin | |
adessive | hillosipulilla | hillosipuleilla | |
ablative | hillosipulilta | hillosipuleilta | |
allative | hillosipulille | hillosipuleille | |
essive | hillosipulina | hillosipuleina | |
translative | hillosipuliksi | hillosipuleiksi | |
abessive | hillosipulitta | hillosipuleitta | |
instructive | — | hillosipulein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Coordinate terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hillosipuli”, 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