sirri
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sirri
- sandpiper, stint, knot, dunlin (small wading birds primarily in the genus Calidris but also in three related genera Eurynorhynchus, Aechmorhynchus and Prosobonia, see list below under Derived terms)
- (in the plural) the genus Calidris.
Usage notes
[edit]In addition to the genera listed above, in English "sandpiper" appears in common names of birds also in genera Bartramia, Tringa, Xenus and Actitis.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sirri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sirri | sirrit | |
genitive | sirrin | sirrien | |
partitive | sirriä | sirrejä | |
illative | sirriin | sirreihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sirri | sirrit | |
accusative | nom. | sirri | sirrit |
gen. | sirrin | ||
genitive | sirrin | sirrien | |
partitive | sirriä | sirrejä | |
inessive | sirrissä | sirreissä | |
elative | sirristä | sirreistä | |
illative | sirriin | sirreihin | |
adessive | sirrillä | sirreillä | |
ablative | sirriltä | sirreiltä | |
allative | sirrille | sirreille | |
essive | sirrinä | sirreinä | |
translative | sirriksi | sirreiksi | |
abessive | sirrittä | sirreittä | |
instructive | — | sirrein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- amerikansirri (“Calidris minutilla, least sandpiper”)
- beringinsirri (“Calidris ptilocnemis, rock sandpiper”)
- eskimosirri (“Calidris bairdii, Baird’s sandpiper”)
- isosirri (“Calidris canutus, red knot”)
- jänkäsirriäinen
- kanadansirri (“Calidris pusilla, semipalmated sandpiper”)
- kiritimatinsirri (“Aechmorhynchus cancellatus, Kiritimati sandpiper”)
- kuovisirri (“Calidris ferruginea, curlew sandpiper”)
- lapinsirri (“Calidris temminckii, Temminck’s stint”)
- lusikkasirri (“Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, spoon-billed sandpiper”)
- merisirri (“Calidris maritima, purple sandpiper”)
- mooreansirri (“Prosobonia ellisi, Moorean sandpiper”)
- palsasirri (“Calidris melanotos, pectoral sandpiper”)
- pikkusirri (“Calidris minuta, little stint”)
- pitkäkoipisirri (“Calidris himantopus, stilt-sandpiper”)
- polynesiansirri (“bird of the genus Aechmorhynchus”)
- pulmussirri (“Calidris alba, sanderling”)
- rusokaulasirri (“Calidris ruficollis, red-necked stint”)
- seurasaartensirri (“bird of the genus Prosobonia”)
- siperiansirri (“Calidris subminuta, long-toed stint”)
- suippopyrstösirri (“Calidris acuminata, sharp-tailed sandpiper”)
- suosirri (“Calidris alpina, dunlin”)
- tahitinsirri (“Prosobonia leucoptera, Tahiti sandpiper”)
- tuamotunsirri (“Aechmorhynchus parvirostris, Tuamotu sandpiper”)
- tundrasirri (“Calidris mauri, western sandpiper”)
- valkoperäsirri (“Calidris fuscicollis, white-rumped sandpiper”)
- vuorisirri (“Calidris tenuirostris, great knot”)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sirri”, 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