sopuli
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ, “sable”),[1] from Old East Slavic соболь (sobolĭ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sopuli
- lemming (several rodents in the family Cricetidae, especially those of the tribe Lemmini)
- lemming, true lemming (any rodent of the genus Lemmus)
- Norway lemming, Lemmus lemmus
- Synonym: tunturisopuli
- lemming (a member of a group given to conformity or groupthink; used especially of journalists)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sopuli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | sopuli | sopulit | |
genitive | sopulin | sopulien sopuleiden sopuleitten | |
partitive | sopulia | sopuleita sopuleja | |
illative | sopuliin | sopuleihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sopuli | sopulit | |
accusative | nom. | sopuli | sopulit |
gen. | sopulin | ||
genitive | sopulin | sopulien sopuleiden sopuleitten | |
partitive | sopulia | sopuleita sopuleja | |
inessive | sopulissa | sopuleissa | |
elative | sopulista | sopuleista | |
illative | sopuliin | sopuleihin | |
adessive | sopulilla | sopuleilla | |
ablative | sopulilta | sopuleilta | |
allative | sopulille | sopuleille | |
essive | sopulina | sopuleina | |
translative | sopuliksi | sopuleiksi | |
abessive | sopulitta | sopuleitta | |
instructive | — | sopulein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- amurinsopuli
- arosopuli (“steppe lemming, genus Lagurus”)
- kaulussopuli (“collared lemming, genus Dicrostonyx”)
- kelta-arosopuli (“yellow steppe lemming, genus Erolagurus”)
- labradorinkaulussopuli
- maamyyräsopuli (“mole vole, genus Ellobius”) (dated)
- maruna-arosopuli (“sagebrush vole, genus Lemmiscus”) (dated)
- metsäsopuli (“wood lemming, species Myopus schisticolor”)
- sopulilauma
- sopulinsara
- sopulivuosi
- suosopuli (“bog lemming, genus Synaptomus”)
- tunturisopuli (“Norway lemming, species Lemmus lemmus”)
References
[edit]- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “sopuli”, 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