lauantai
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *laugantaki (compare dialectal lauvantaki), borrowed from North Germanic (compare Old Norse laugardagr).[1][2] Estonian laupäev, Votic laukopäive, Ingrian laukopäivä are from the same origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlɑu̯.ɑntɑi̯/, [ˈlɑ̝u̯.ɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝i̯]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɑuɑntɑi
- Hyphenation(key): lau‧an‧tai
Noun
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lauantai
- Saturday (day of the week; the sixth day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)
Usage notes
[edit]As with all days of the week in Finnish, the essive case (lauantaina) is usually used when talking about what will happen or happened on a Saturday.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of lauantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | lauantai | lauantait | |
genitive | lauantain | lauantaiden lauantaitten | |
partitive | lauantaita | lauantaita | |
illative | lauantaihin | lauantaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lauantai | lauantait | |
accusative | nom. | lauantai | lauantait |
gen. | lauantain | ||
genitive | lauantain | lauantaiden lauantaitten | |
partitive | lauantaita | lauantaita | |
inessive | lauantaissa | lauantaissa | |
elative | lauantaista | lauantaista | |
illative | lauantaihin | lauantaihin | |
adessive | lauantailla | lauantailla | |
ablative | lauantailta | lauantailta | |
allative | lauantaille | lauantaille | |
essive | lauantaina | lauantaina | |
translative | lauantaiksi | lauantaiksi | |
abessive | lauantaitta | lauantaitta | |
instructive | — | lauantain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Descendants
[edit]- Kven: lauvantai
- → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
See also
[edit]- (abbreviation) la
- days of the week: viikonpäivä (appendix): maanantai · tiistai · keskiviikko · torstai · perjantai · lauantai · sunnuntai [edit]
References
[edit]- ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “lauantai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from North Germanic languages
- Finnish terms derived from North Germanic languages
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑuɑntɑi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑuɑntɑi/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish maa-type nominals
- fi:Days of the week