valtti
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Most likely borrowed from Swedish valt, the supine of välja (“to choose, elect”), as in many card games the trump suit is nominated. Has also been compared with archaic Norwegian velt and Danish vælt, with dialectal variant valt in the latter, both ultimately from Old Norse velta (“to roll over, turn over”). Alternatively borrowed from Middle Low German [Term?].
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]valtti
- (card games) trump
- (figuratively) trump, advantage (especially one held in reserve)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of valtti (Kotus type 5*C/risti, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | valtti | valtit | |
genitive | valtin | valttien | |
partitive | valttia | valtteja | |
illative | valttiin | valtteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | valtti | valtit | |
accusative | nom. | valtti | valtit |
gen. | valtin | ||
genitive | valtin | valttien | |
partitive | valttia | valtteja | |
inessive | valtissa | valteissa | |
elative | valtista | valteista | |
illative | valttiin | valtteihin | |
adessive | valtilla | valteilla | |
ablative | valtilta | valteilta | |
allative | valtille | valteille | |
essive | valttina | valtteina | |
translative | valtiksi | valteiksi | |
abessive | valtitta | valteitta | |
instructive | — | valtein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (card games): valttimaa
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “valtti”, 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 2023-07-04
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms borrowed from Middle Low German
- Finnish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑltːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑltːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Card games
- Finnish risti-type nominals