riimu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish grīma (among its meanings, "halter; (dialectal) mark in wood"; compare Swedish grimma (“halter”)), from Proto-Germanic *grīmô. Cognate with Estonian kriim.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]riimu
- (dialectal) scratch
- rune (letter)
- (dialectal) chain
- halter (horse's headgear)
- the larger mesh of a trammel
Declension
[edit]Inflection of riimu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | riimu | riimut | |
genitive | riimun | riimujen | |
partitive | riimua | riimuja | |
illative | riimuun | riimuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | riimu | riimut | |
accusative | nom. | riimu | riimut |
gen. | riimun | ||
genitive | riimun | riimujen | |
partitive | riimua | riimuja | |
inessive | riimussa | riimuissa | |
elative | riimusta | riimuista | |
illative | riimuun | riimuihin | |
adessive | riimulla | riimuilla | |
ablative | riimulta | riimuilta | |
allative | riimulle | riimuille | |
essive | riimuna | riimuina | |
translative | riimuksi | riimuiksi | |
abessive | riimutta | riimuitta | |
instructive | — | riimuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (halter): tallipäitset
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “riimu”, 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