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kimalainen

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *kimalainën. Possibly a borrowing from Proto-Slavic *čьmeľь, itself likely onomatopoetic; attempts at deriving from kimeä (shrill) or kimaltaa (to glitter) are semantically unconvincing, since bumblebees don't glitter and the sound they emit is the opposite of shrill.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkimɑlɑi̯nen/, [ˈk̟imɑ̝ˌlɑ̝i̯ne̞n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑinen
  • Hyphenation(key): ki‧ma‧lai‧nen

Noun

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kimalainen

  1. bumblebee (Bombus)

Declension

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Inflection of kimalainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation)
nominative kimalainen kimalaiset
genitive kimalaisen kimalaisten
kimalaisien
partitive kimalaista kimalaisia
illative kimalaiseen kimalaisiin
singular plural
nominative kimalainen kimalaiset
accusative nom. kimalainen kimalaiset
gen. kimalaisen
genitive kimalaisen kimalaisten
kimalaisien
partitive kimalaista kimalaisia
inessive kimalaisessa kimalaisissa
elative kimalaisesta kimalaisista
illative kimalaiseen kimalaisiin
adessive kimalaisella kimalaisilla
ablative kimalaiselta kimalaisilta
allative kimalaiselle kimalaisille
essive kimalaisena kimalaisina
translative kimalaiseksi kimalaisiksi
abessive kimalaisetta kimalaisitta
instructive kimalaisin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of kimalainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation)

Derived terms

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compounds

References

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  1. ^ Kallio, Petri (2006). On the Earliest Slavic Loanwords in Finnic. In Slavica Helsingiensia 27. Helsinki. →ISBN. Page 158, footnote 12

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Anagrams

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