kuukausimansikka
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kuukausi (“month”) + mansikka (“strawberry”), calque of Swedish månadssmultron, thus called because this plant produces flowers for months instead of a couple of weeks
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkuːˌkɑu̯siˌmɑnsikːɑ/, [ˈkuːˌkɑ̝u̯s̠iˌmɑ̝ns̠ikːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑnsikːɑ
- Hyphenation(key): kuu‧kausi‧mansik‧ka
Noun
[edit]kuukausimansikka
- alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca subsp. semperflorens, a cultivar of wild strawberry used chiefly as decorative plant)
Declension
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]- metsämansikka (“wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca”)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kuukausimansikka”, 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