loikko
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). Possibly based on the dialectal word loikka, loikko (“flat, shallow”), which may be akin to loiva.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]loikko
- bladder fern (any plant of the genus Cystopteris)
- (in the plural) the genus Cystopteris
Declension
[edit]Inflection of loikko (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | loikko | loikot | |
genitive | loikon | loikkojen | |
partitive | loikkoa | loikkoja | |
illative | loikkoon | loikkoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | loikko | loikot | |
accusative | nom. | loikko | loikot |
gen. | loikon | ||
genitive | loikon | loikkojen | |
partitive | loikkoa | loikkoja | |
inessive | loikossa | loikoissa | |
elative | loikosta | loikoista | |
illative | loikkoon | loikkoihin | |
adessive | loikolla | loikoilla | |
ablative | loikolta | loikoilta | |
allative | loikolle | loikoille | |
essive | loikkona | loikkoina | |
translative | loikoksi | loikoiksi | |
abessive | loikotta | loikoitta | |
instructive | — | loikoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “loikko”, 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 2023-07-03