kullankarvainen
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kullan + karvainen; mentioned in a 1683 dictionary in a gloss for Latin rufus and rutilus.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkulːɑnˌkɑrʋɑi̯nen/, [ˈkulːɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝rʋɑ̝i̯ne̞n]
- Rhymes: -ɑrʋɑinen
- Hyphenation(key): kullan‧karvai‧nen
Adjective
[edit]kullankarvainen (comparative kullankarvaisempi, superlative kullankarvaisin)
- (archaic) yellow, gold-coloured, golden
- 1907, Herodotus, translated by Edvard Rein, Historia-teos I-II:
- Toiset sen sulista ovat kullankarvaiset, toiset punaiset.
- Some of its feathers are golden, others are red.
- 1917, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Jalmari Hahl, Yksinkertainen sydän, chapter IV:
- Sen ruumis oli vihreä, siivenpäät vaaleanpunaiset, otsa sininen ja rinta kullankarvainen.
- [original: Son corps était vert, le bout de ses ailes rose, son front bleu et sa gorge dorée.]
- Its body was green, the tips of its wings were pink, its forehead was blue, and its breast was golden.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kullankarvainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kullankarvainen | kullankarvaiset | |
genitive | kullankarvaisen | kullankarvaisten kullankarvaisien | |
partitive | kullankarvaista | kullankarvaisia | |
illative | kullankarvaiseen | kullankarvaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kullankarvainen | kullankarvaiset | |
accusative | nom. | kullankarvainen | kullankarvaiset |
gen. | kullankarvaisen | ||
genitive | kullankarvaisen | kullankarvaisten kullankarvaisien | |
partitive | kullankarvaista | kullankarvaisia | |
inessive | kullankarvaisessa | kullankarvaisissa | |
elative | kullankarvaisesta | kullankarvaisista | |
illative | kullankarvaiseen | kullankarvaisiin | |
adessive | kullankarvaisella | kullankarvaisilla | |
ablative | kullankarvaiselta | kullankarvaisilta | |
allative | kullankarvaiselle | kullankarvaisille | |
essive | kullankarvaisena | kullankarvaisina | |
translative | kullankarvaiseksi | kullankarvaisiksi | |
abessive | kullankarvaisetta | kullankarvaisitta | |
instructive | — | kullankarvaisin | |
comitative | — | kullankarvaisine |
References
[edit]- ^ Florinus, Henricus Matthiae (1683) Nomenclatura Rerum brevissima Latino-Sveco-Finnonica[1] (in Latin), 2nd edition, page 137: “Rufus,-rutilus, Roͤdachtigh/ gullroͤdh. Ru- ſkia/ cullan carwainen. [Rufus,-rutilus, Rödaktig, gullröd. Ruskea [punainen], kullankarvainen.] ― Red, -golden red, Red/ golden red. Red/ golden.”