leijuri
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]leijua (“to hover”) + -uri. In the sense "anomalure", coined by Nisäkäsnimistötoimikunta (Committee for Mammal Names) in 2008. The older term for these animals is suomuhäntäorava (“lit. scale-tailed squirrel”), which still appears to be more frequently used (2012).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leijuri
- (zoology) anomalure, anomalurid, scaly-tailed squirrel (any member of the family Anomaluridae, a family of rodents found in central Africa)
- (science fiction, computer games) A fictional aircraft capable of hovering.
- (historical) helicopter (Finnish-language term proposed by professor Aarni Penttilä, which never gained ground, but survives as curiosity)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of leijuri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | leijuri | leijurit | |
genitive | leijurin | leijurien leijureiden leijureitten | |
partitive | leijuria | leijureita leijureja | |
illative | leijuriin | leijureihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | leijuri | leijurit | |
accusative | nom. | leijuri | leijurit |
gen. | leijurin | ||
genitive | leijurin | leijurien leijureiden leijureitten | |
partitive | leijuria | leijureita leijureja | |
inessive | leijurissa | leijureissa | |
elative | leijurista | leijureista | |
illative | leijuriin | leijureihin | |
adessive | leijurilla | leijureilla | |
ablative | leijurilta | leijureilta | |
allative | leijurille | leijureille | |
essive | leijurina | leijureina | |
translative | leijuriksi | leijureiksi | |
abessive | leijuritta | leijureitta | |
instructive | — | leijurein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (anomalurid): suomuhäntäorava
- (helicopter): helikopteri
See also
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -uri
- Finnish terms coined by Nisäkäsnimistötoimikunta
- Finnish coinages
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eijuri
- Rhymes:Finnish/eijuri/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Zoology
- fi:Science fiction
- fi:Video games
- Finnish terms with historical senses
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- fi:Rodents