kurmitsa
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *kurmicca.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kurmitsa
- plover (bird of the family Charadriidae)
- plover, golden plover, dotterel (birds of several genera within the family Charadriidae, see list below)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kurmitsa (Kotus type 13/katiska, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kurmitsa | kurmitsat | |
genitive | kurmitsan | kurmitsoiden kurmitsoitten kurmitsojen | |
partitive | kurmitsaa | kurmitsoita kurmitsoja | |
illative | kurmitsaan | kurmitsoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kurmitsa | kurmitsat | |
accusative | nom. | kurmitsa | kurmitsat |
gen. | kurmitsan | ||
genitive | kurmitsan | kurmitsoiden kurmitsoitten kurmitsojen kurmitsain rare | |
partitive | kurmitsaa | kurmitsoita kurmitsoja | |
inessive | kurmitsassa | kurmitsoissa | |
elative | kurmitsasta | kurmitsoista | |
illative | kurmitsaan | kurmitsoihin | |
adessive | kurmitsalla | kurmitsoilla | |
ablative | kurmitsalta | kurmitsoilta | |
allative | kurmitsalle | kurmitsoille | |
essive | kurmitsana | kurmitsoina | |
translative | kurmitsaksi | kurmitsoiksi | |
abessive | kurmitsatta | kurmitsoitta | |
instructive | — | kurmitsoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]- amerikankurmitsa (“Pluvialis dominica, American golden plover”)
- andienkeräkurmitsa (“Oreopholus ruficollis, tawny-throated dotterel”)
- andienkurmitsa (“Phegornis mitchellii, diademed plover”)
- australiankurmitsa (“Peltohyas australis, inland dotterel”)
- hopeakurmitsa (“Pluvianellus socialis, Magellanic plover”)
- keräkurmitsa (“Charadrius morinellus, Eurasian dotterel”)
- kurmitsansara
- siperiankurmitsa (“Pluvialis fulva, Pacific golden plover”)
- tundrakurmitsa (“Pluvialis squatarola, grey plover/black-bellied plover”)
- uudenseelanninkurmitsa (“Charadrius obscurus, red-breasted plover”)
Further reading
[edit]- “kurmitsa”, 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