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messissä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Inessive singular of messi-, either from Swedish med (perhaps med sig, sounding like messej in rapid speech),[1] or from Russian вместе (vmeste).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmesːisːæ/, [ˈme̞s̠ːis̠ːæ]
  • Rhymes: -esːisːæ
  • Hyphenation(key): mes‧sis‧sä

Adverb

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messissä (slang)

  1. in doing something with someone else, in a group doing something

Inflection

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→○ illative messiin
inessive messissä
○→ elative

References

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  1. ^ Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN

Further reading

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Noun

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messissä

  1. inessive singular of messi