lakritsi
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
< Swedish lakrits (“liquorice”), ultimately from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza, “licorice plant”), from γλυκύς (glukús, “sweet”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lakritsi
- licorice, liquorice
- englantilainen lakritsi ― liquorice allsorts
Declension[edit]
Inflection of lakritsi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | lakritsi | lakritsit | ||
genitive | lakritsin | lakritsien | ||
partitive | lakritsia | lakritseja | ||
illative | lakritsiin | lakritseihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | lakritsi | lakritsit | ||
accusative | nom. | lakritsi | lakritsit | |
gen. | lakritsin | |||
genitive | lakritsin | lakritsien | ||
partitive | lakritsia | lakritseja | ||
inessive | lakritsissa | lakritseissa | ||
elative | lakritsista | lakritseista | ||
illative | lakritsiin | lakritseihin | ||
adessive | lakritsilla | lakritseilla | ||
ablative | lakritsilta | lakritseilta | ||
allative | lakritsille | lakritseille | ||
essive | lakritsina | lakritseina | ||
translative | lakritsiksi | lakritseiksi | ||
abessive | lakritsitta | lakritseitta | ||
instructive | — | lakritsein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
- (colloquial) laku
Derived terms[edit]
compounds
References[edit]
- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- “lakritsi”, 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 2023-07-02
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- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑkritsi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑkritsi/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with collocations
- Finnish risti-type nominals