sippi
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perhaps related to dialectal (mennä) sippaan (“(to get) bent, to fail”) and Karelian šivallah (“tilted”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sippi (comparative sipimpi, superlative sipein)
Declension
[edit]Rarely inflected (but see sippiin, sipissä).
Inflection of sippi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | sippi | sipit | |
genitive | sipin | sippien | |
partitive | sippiä | sippejä | |
illative | sippiin | sippeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sippi | sipit | |
accusative | nom. | sippi | sipit |
gen. | sipin | ||
genitive | sipin | sippien | |
partitive | sippiä | sippejä | |
inessive | sipissä | sipeissä | |
elative | sipistä | sipeistä | |
illative | sippiin | sippeihin | |
adessive | sipillä | sipeillä | |
ablative | sipiltä | sipeiltä | |
allative | sipille | sipeille | |
essive | sippinä | sippeinä | |
translative | sipiksi | sipeiksi | |
abessive | sipittä | sipeittä | |
instructive | — | sipein | |
comitative | — | sippeine |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “sippi”, 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