pissaliisa
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pissa (“pee”) + Liisa (common female name).
- According to Heikki Paunonen, a professor of Finnish language, the word may be related to the term kusipää (“bastard, asshole”, literally “piss-head”).
- According to folk etymology, from public urination when intoxicated, although this is by no means the distinctive feature of the stereotype.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pissaliisa (colloquial, derogatory, dated)
- Synonym of pissis.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pissaliisa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pissaliisa | pissaliisat | |
genitive | pissaliisan | pissaliisojen | |
partitive | pissaliisaa | pissaliisoja | |
illative | pissaliisaan | pissaliisoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pissaliisa | pissaliisat | |
accusative | nom. | pissaliisa | pissaliisat |
gen. | pissaliisan | ||
genitive | pissaliisan | pissaliisojen pissaliisain rare | |
partitive | pissaliisaa | pissaliisoja | |
inessive | pissaliisassa | pissaliisoissa | |
elative | pissaliisasta | pissaliisoista | |
illative | pissaliisaan | pissaliisoihin | |
adessive | pissaliisalla | pissaliisoilla | |
ablative | pissaliisalta | pissaliisoilta | |
allative | pissaliisalle | pissaliisoille | |
essive | pissaliisana | pissaliisoina | |
translative | pissaliisaksi | pissaliisoiksi | |
abessive | pissaliisatta | pissaliisoitta | |
instructive | — | pissaliisoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ AitO ja 100 % pissis (2004 March 26) “https://ylioppilaslehti.fi/2004/03/aito-ja-100-pissis/”, in Ylioppilaslehti[1] (in Finnish), archived from the original on 22 February 2022
Further reading
[edit]- “pissaliisa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][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