tonttu
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tonttu
- (folklore) A miniature mythical humanoid creature believed to live in the forests and in or near people's dwellings, similar to an elf or gnome.
- elf (Santa's helper)
- fool (person with poor judgment or little intelligence)
- (colloquial) thousand
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tonttu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | tonttu | tontut | |
genitive | tontun | tonttujen | |
partitive | tonttua | tonttuja | |
illative | tonttuun | tonttuihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tonttu | tontut | |
accusative | nom. | tonttu | tontut |
gen. | tontun | ||
genitive | tontun | tonttujen | |
partitive | tonttua | tonttuja | |
inessive | tontussa | tontuissa | |
elative | tontusta | tontuista | |
illative | tonttuun | tonttuihin | |
adessive | tontulla | tontuilla | |
ablative | tontulta | tontuilta | |
allative | tontulle | tontuille | |
essive | tonttuna | tonttuina | |
translative | tontuksi | tontuiksi | |
abessive | tontutta | tontuitta | |
instructive | — | tontuin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (humanoid in folklore): haltija
- (Santa's helper): joulutonttu
- (fool): hölmö, höntti, pöhkö, pösilö, tomppeli, toope
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “tonttu”, 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