heltta
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Cognate with Karelian heltta and possibly to dialectal Estonian helt (in western dialects, particularly Saaremaa), unless it is borrowed from Finnish.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈheltːɑ/, [ˈhe̞l̪t̪ːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -eltːɑ
- Syllabification(key): helt‧ta
- Hyphenation(key): helt‧ta
Noun
[edit]heltta
- wattle (loose, hanging skin on birds, animals and humans)
- snood (flap of skin on the beak of a turkey)
- (mycology) gill, lamella (of a mushroom)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of heltta (Kotus type 9*C/kala, tt–t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | heltta | heltat | |
| genitive | heltan | helttojen | |
| partitive | helttaa | helttoja | |
| illative | helttaan | helttoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | heltta | heltat | |
| accusative | nom. | heltta | heltat |
| gen. | heltan | ||
| genitive | heltan | helttojen helttain rare | |
| partitive | helttaa | helttoja | |
| inessive | heltassa | heltoissa | |
| elative | heltasta | heltoista | |
| illative | helttaan | helttoihin | |
| adessive | heltalla | heltoilla | |
| ablative | heltalta | heltoilta | |
| allative | heltalle | heltoille | |
| essive | helttana | helttoina | |
| translative | heltaksi | heltoiksi | |
| abessive | heltatta | heltoitta | |
| instructive | — | heltoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “heltta”, 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 2 July 2023