suomu
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *soomu, from Proto-Uralic *śëme. Cognates include Estonian soomus, Veps somuz, Erzya сяв (śav), Udmurt сьӧм (śöm) and Komi-Permyak сьӧм (śöm).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suomu
- scale (one of the keratin pieces covering the skin of certain animals)
- (botany) scale (individual plate of a conifer cone)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of suomu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | suomu | suomut | |
genitive | suomun | suomujen | |
partitive | suomua | suomuja | |
illative | suomuun | suomuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | suomu | suomut | |
accusative | nom. | suomu | suomut |
gen. | suomun | ||
genitive | suomun | suomujen | |
partitive | suomua | suomuja | |
inessive | suomussa | suomuissa | |
elative | suomusta | suomuista | |
illative | suomuun | suomuihin | |
adessive | suomulla | suomuilla | |
ablative | suomulta | suomuilta | |
allative | suomulle | suomuille | |
essive | suomuna | suomuina | |
translative | suomuksi | suomuiksi | |
abessive | suomutta | suomuitta | |
instructive | — | suomuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “suomu”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uomu
- Rhymes:Finnish/uomu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Botany
- Finnish valo-type nominals