pirssi
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian би́ржа (bírža, “horse cab stand”). When automobiles replaced the horses, pirssi came to mean "taxi stand" and the taxis were called pirssiauto or simply pirssi. Later, according to the international practice the term taksi (“taxi”) was adopted.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pirssi
- (archaic) horse cab stand
- (archaic) taxi stand
- Synonyms: taksiasema, taksitolppa
- (colloquial, now rare) taxi
- Synonyms: pirssiauto, taksi, vuokra-auto
- (colloquial) car (automobile)
- Hieno pirssi! ― Nice wheels!
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pirssi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pirssi | pirssit | |
genitive | pirssin | pirssien | |
partitive | pirssiä | pirssejä | |
illative | pirssiin | pirsseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pirssi | pirssit | |
accusative | nom. | pirssi | pirssit |
gen. | pirssin | ||
genitive | pirssin | pirssien | |
partitive | pirssiä | pirssejä | |
inessive | pirssissä | pirsseissä | |
elative | pirssistä | pirsseistä | |
illative | pirssiin | pirsseihin | |
adessive | pirssillä | pirsseillä | |
ablative | pirssiltä | pirsseiltä | |
allative | pirssille | pirsseille | |
essive | pirssinä | pirsseinä | |
translative | pirssiksi | pirsseiksi | |
abessive | pirssittä | pirsseittä | |
instructive | — | pirssein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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References
[edit]- “pirssi”, 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
- Article published on Kotus web page on etymology of pirssi (in Finnish)[2]
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Russian
- Finnish terms derived from Russian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irsːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/irsːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with archaic senses
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish risti-type nominals