kurho
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). Possibly based on a dialectal word kurholainen (“thistle”) (attested in 1850), the etymology of which is obscure.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kurho
- carline thistle (any plant of the genus Carlina)
- (in the plural) the genus Carlina
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kurho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kurho | kurhot | |
genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | |
partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | |
illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kurho | kurhot | |
accusative | nom. | kurho | kurhot |
gen. | kurhon | ||
genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | |
partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | |
inessive | kurhossa | kurhoissa | |
elative | kurhosta | kurhoista | |
illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | |
adessive | kurholla | kurhoilla | |
ablative | kurholta | kurhoilta | |
allative | kurholle | kurhoille | |
essive | kurhona | kurhoina | |
translative | kurhoksi | kurhoiksi | |
abessive | kurhotta | kurhoitta | |
instructive | — | kurhoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “kurho”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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