jalopeura
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See also: Jalopeura
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of jalo (“noble, i.e., king of the beasts”) + peura (“deer; in a primitive sense, any beast of the forest”); one of the many words first known to have been written down by Mikael Agricola when translating the New Testament into Finnish in the 16th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jalopeura (archaic)
- (biblical) lion
- 1933/1938, Pyhä Raamattu [The Holy Bible], Helsinki: Suomen Pipliaseura, Pietarin ensimmäinen kirje (1 Peter) 5:8:
- Teidän vastustajanne, perkele, käy ympäri niinkuin kiljuva jalopeura, etsien, kenen hän saisi niellä
- (...) your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour
Usage notes
[edit]Often used together with the epithet kiljuva, as it appeared in the Finnish Bible up to the 1938 translation.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of jalopeura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | jalopeura | jalopeurat | |
genitive | jalopeuran | jalopeurojen | |
partitive | jalopeuraa | jalopeuroja | |
illative | jalopeuraan | jalopeuroihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | jalopeura | jalopeurat | |
accusative | nom. | jalopeura | jalopeurat |
gen. | jalopeuran | ||
genitive | jalopeuran | jalopeurojen jalopeurain rare | |
partitive | jalopeuraa | jalopeuroja | |
inessive | jalopeurassa | jalopeuroissa | |
elative | jalopeurasta | jalopeuroista | |
illative | jalopeuraan | jalopeuroihin | |
adessive | jalopeuralla | jalopeuroilla | |
ablative | jalopeuralta | jalopeuroilta | |
allative | jalopeuralle | jalopeuroille | |
essive | jalopeurana | jalopeuroina | |
translative | jalopeuraksi | jalopeuroiksi | |
abessive | jalopeuratta | jalopeuroitta | |
instructive | — | jalopeuroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “jalopeura”, 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