nielu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *neelu. Equivalent to niellä (“to swallow”) + -u.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nielu
- (anatomy) pharynx (part of the throat)
- (fishing) funnel (in a fyke net)
- sink (the opposite of a source; that which absorbs something; target or destination)
- Antonym: lähde
- (botany) throat (orifice of a tubular organ)
- (electronics) drain (of a field effect transistor)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of nielu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | nielu | nielut | |
genitive | nielun | nielujen | |
partitive | nielua | nieluja | |
illative | nieluun | nieluihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | nielu | nielut | |
accusative | nom. | nielu | nielut |
gen. | nielun | ||
genitive | nielun | nielujen | |
partitive | nielua | nieluja | |
inessive | nielussa | nieluissa | |
elative | nielusta | nieluista | |
illative | nieluun | nieluihin | |
adessive | nielulla | nieluilla | |
ablative | nielulta | nieluilta | |
allative | nielulle | nieluille | |
essive | nieluna | nieluina | |
translative | nieluksi | nieluiksi | |
abessive | nielutta | nieluitta | |
instructive | — | nieluin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “nielu”, 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
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- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -u
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ielu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ielu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Anatomy
- fi:Fishing
- fi:Botany
- fi:Electronics
- Finnish valo-type nominals