lytyssä
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inessive of lytty-, of sound-symbolic origin[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]lytyssä
- flattened, squeezed between something or collapsed, but still in one piece.
- Hänen silinterinsä oli lytyssä, koska hänen seuralaisensa istui vahingossa sen päälle.
- His top hat was flattened, because his companion had accidentally sat on it.
Usage notes
[edit]This word looks as if it was inessive of the word lytty, but such word does not exist.
Inflection
[edit]| →○ | illative | lyttyyn |
|---|---|---|
| ○ | inessive | lytyssä |
| ○→ | elative | – |
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “lytyssä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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