litteä
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proto-Finnic *littu + -eä, probably a sound-symbolic stem,[1] compare lattea.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]litteä (comparative litteämpi, superlative littein)
- flat
- Hän yritti piiloutua painautumalla litteäksi seinää vasten.
- He tried to hide by flattening himself against the wall.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of litteä (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | litteä | litteät | |
genitive | litteän | litteiden litteitten | |
partitive | litteää litteätä |
litteitä | |
illative | litteään | litteisiin litteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | litteä | litteät | |
accusative | nom. | litteä | litteät |
gen. | litteän | ||
genitive | litteän | litteiden litteitten litteäin rare | |
partitive | litteää litteätä |
litteitä | |
inessive | litteässä | litteissä | |
elative | litteästä | litteistä | |
illative | litteään | litteisiin litteihin | |
adessive | litteällä | litteillä | |
ablative | litteältä | litteiltä | |
allative | litteälle | litteille | |
essive | litteänä | litteinä | |
translative | litteäksi | litteiksi | |
abessive | litteättä | litteittä | |
instructive | — | littein | |
comitative | — | litteine |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[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
Further reading
[edit]- “litteä”, 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 2023-07-03
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[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -ea
- Finnish sound-symbolic terms
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/itːeæ
- Rhymes:Finnish/itːeæ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish adjectives
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish korkea-type nominals