mönkään
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Superficially an illative singular, but the base word and its etymology is unknown. Perhaps akin to dialectal myngätä, mönkiä (“to rummage”), which are probably akin to mönkiä (“to crawl”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mönkään
- Only used in mennä mönkään
Further reading
[edit]- “mönkään”, 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