pukki
Appearance
See also: Pukki
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish bukker.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pukki
- billygoat; buck (male goat)
- sawhorse (device used to support pieces of timber while sawing)
- Synonym: sahapukki
- trestle (structural member)
- (informal) Ellipsis of joulupukki (“Santa Claus, Santa, Father Christmas”).
- (colloquial) lecherous man
- Synonym: huoripukki
- (colloquial) tick, check, checkmark (✓)
- Synonyms: oikein-merkki, rasti
- (colloquial) driver's seat
- Synonym: kuljettajanpaikka
- (informal, gymnastics) vaulting horse
- Synonyms: hyppyteline, hyppypukki
- (informal, gymnastics) vaulting table
- Synonym: hyppyarkku
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pukki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation) | |||
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nominative | pukki | pukit | |
genitive | pukin | pukkien | |
partitive | pukkia | pukkeja | |
illative | pukkiin | pukkeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pukki | pukit | |
accusative | nom. | pukki | pukit |
gen. | pukin | ||
genitive | pukin | pukkien | |
partitive | pukkia | pukkeja | |
inessive | pukissa | pukeissa | |
elative | pukista | pukeista | |
illative | pukkiin | pukkeihin | |
adessive | pukilla | pukeilla | |
ablative | pukilta | pukeilta | |
allative | pukille | pukeille | |
essive | pukkina | pukkeina | |
translative | pukiksi | pukeiksi | |
abessive | pukitta | pukeitta | |
instructive | — | pukein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- autopukki
- huoripukki
- hyppypukki
- jauhopukki
- joulupukki
- kantelupukki
- kiinnityspukki
- kilipukki
- kuskipukki
- moottoripukki
- nuuttipukki
- olkipukki
- pukinjuuri
- pukinnahka
- pukinparta
- pukinpensas
- pukinsarvi
- pukinsorkka
- pukkihaasia
- pukkihyppely
- pukkihyppy
- pukkimokka
- pukkinosturi
- pukkisilta (“trestle bridge”)
- resupukki
- rihtauspukki
- rullapukki
- sahapukki
- suklaapukki
- syntipukki
- valepukki (“liar”)
- valepukki (“fake Santa”)
- vuohipukki
Further reading
[edit]- “pukki”, 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 borrowed from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ukːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ukːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish ellipses
- Finnish colloquialisms
- fi:Gymnastics
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Automotive
- fi:Chairs
- fi:Goats
- fi:Male animals
- fi:People
- fi:Sports equipment
- fi:Woodworking