hillosipuli
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
hillo (“jam”) + sipuli (“onion”); calque of Swedish syltlök (“variety of Allium cepa of which pickled onions are often made”) < sylt (“jam”) + lök (“onion”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hillosipuli
- pearl onion, Allium ampeloprasum var. sectivum (cultivar of wild leek producing small bulbs used primarily for pickling)
- pickled onion, silverskin onion (any small onion used for pickling, usually a variant of the common onion Allium cepa)
- (in the plural) Pickled onions as dish.
Declension[edit]
Inflection of hillosipuli (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | hillosipuli | hillosipulit | ||
genitive | hillosipulin | hillosipulien hillosipuleiden hillosipuleitten | ||
partitive | hillosipulia | hillosipuleita hillosipuleja | ||
illative | hillosipuliin | hillosipuleihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | hillosipuli | hillosipulit | ||
accusative | nom. | hillosipuli | hillosipulit | |
gen. | hillosipulin | |||
genitive | hillosipulin | hillosipulien hillosipuleiden hillosipuleitten | ||
partitive | hillosipulia | hillosipuleita hillosipuleja | ||
inessive | hillosipulissa | hillosipuleissa | ||
elative | hillosipulista | hillosipuleista | ||
illative | hillosipuliin | hillosipuleihin | ||
adessive | hillosipulilla | hillosipuleilla | ||
ablative | hillosipulilta | hillosipuleilta | ||
allative | hillosipulille | hillosipuleille | ||
essive | hillosipulina | hillosipuleina | ||
translative | hillosipuliksi | hillosipuleiksi | ||
abessive | hillosipulitta | hillosipuleitta | ||
instructive | — | hillosipulein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Coordinate terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hillosipuli”, 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