kurho
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). Possibly based on a dialectal word kurholainen (“thistle”) (hapax legomenon attested in Lohja), the etymology of which is obscure.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kurho
- carline thistle (any plant of the genus Carlina)
- (in the plural) the genus Carlina
Declension[edit]
Inflection of kurho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kurho | kurhot | ||
genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | ||
partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | ||
illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kurho | kurhot | ||
accusative | nom. | kurho | kurhot | |
gen. | kurhon | |||
genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | ||
partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | ||
inessive | kurhossa | kurhoissa | ||
elative | kurhosta | kurhoista | ||
illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | ||
adessive | kurholla | kurhoilla | ||
ablative | kurholta | kurhoilta | ||
allative | kurholle | kurhoille | ||
essive | kurhona | kurhoina | ||
translative | kurhoksi | kurhoiksi | ||
abessive | kurhotta | kurhoitta | ||
instructive | — | kurhoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading[edit]
- “kurho”, 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