lerkku
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lerkku (dialectal)
- pendulum, especially that of a wall clock
- Synonym: heiluri
- 1844 August 31, Maamiehen Ystävä, number 35 (newspaper), Kuopio, →ISSN, page [1], column 1:
- Sekundi on ſe aika, jonka lerkku (Ruot- ſikſi pendel) tawalliſisſa, iſoimisſa kelloisſa tarwitſee kulkeakſeen laidasta laitaan.
- A second is the time that a pendulum (pendel in Swedish) in the largest typical clocks needs to move from side to side.
- 1863 July, Luonnotar, number 7 (newspaper), Helsinki, page 52 (of volume), column 1:
- Suuren pituutenſa wuokſi heliui lerk- ku hywin witkasti ja kuulan painon wuokſi keſtiwät heilumiſet koko päiwän
- Due to its length, the pendulum swung very slowly, and due to the weight of the ball, the swinging lasted a whole day
- 1939 April 5, “Seinäkello”, in Peltomies, volume 3, numbers 13–14 (newspaper), Porvoo, page 12, column 2:
- — Kuuluu Kuivalankin kello tänä aamuna seisahtaneen. — Horitseko sinä? — En. Näin sen itse, ettei lerkku liikkunut.
- "They say Kuivala's clock stopped too this morning." "You're joking?" "No. I saw it myself, that the pendulum wasn't moving."
Declension
[edit]Inflection of lerkku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | lerkku | lerkut | |
genitive | lerkun | lerkkujen | |
partitive | lerkkua | lerkkuja | |
illative | lerkkuun | lerkkuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lerkku | lerkut | |
accusative | nom. | lerkku | lerkut |
gen. | lerkun | ||
genitive | lerkun | lerkkujen | |
partitive | lerkkua | lerkkuja | |
inessive | lerkussa | lerkuissa | |
elative | lerkusta | lerkuista | |
illative | lerkkuun | lerkkuihin | |
adessive | lerkulla | lerkuilla | |
ablative | lerkulta | lerkuilta | |
allative | lerkulle | lerkuille | |
essive | lerkkuna | lerkkuina | |
translative | lerkuksi | lerkuiksi | |
abessive | lerkutta | lerkuitta | |
instructive | — | lerkuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |