vaarain
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Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Seeing as dialectal variants like maarain, maarama exist, the word is probably an alteration of earlier *vadarma or *vabarma (see vadelma) by analogy with muurain (“cloudberry”) (< *mu(u)rama), possibly inspired by the regular loss (generally) of medial *b, *d, *g into *vaarma.
Noun
[edit]vaarain (dialectal)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of vaarain (Kotus type 33/kytkin, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | vaarain | vaaraimet | ||
genitive | vaaraimen | vaaraimien vaarainten | ||
partitive | vaarainta | vaaraimia | ||
illative | vaaraimeen | vaaraimiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | vaarain | vaaraimet | ||
accusative | nom. | vaarain | vaaraimet | |
gen. | vaaraimen | |||
genitive | vaaraimen | vaaraimien vaarainten | ||
partitive | vaarainta | vaaraimia | ||
inessive | vaaraimessa | vaaraimissa | ||
elative | vaaraimesta | vaaraimista | ||
illative | vaaraimeen | vaaraimiin | ||
adessive | vaaraimella | vaaraimilla | ||
ablative | vaaraimelta | vaaraimilta | ||
allative | vaaraimelle | vaaraimille | ||
essive | vaaraimena | vaaraimina | ||
translative | vaaraimeksi | vaaraimiksi | ||
abessive | vaaraimetta | vaaraimitta | ||
instructive | — | vaaraimin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vaarain”, 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 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaarain