keho
Finnish
Etymology
Coined by Finnish linguist Hannes Teppo in 1945 in cooperation with Lääketieteen sanastolautakunta (Medical Terminology Board), as the meaning of the term ruumis was changed from "human body" to "dead human body, corpse, cadaver". Syntactically kehä + -o, and inspired by Estonian keha.
Pronunciation
Noun
keho
- A living human body.
Declension
Inflection of keho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | keho | kehot | ||
genitive | kehon | kehojen | ||
partitive | kehoa | kehoja | ||
illative | kehoon | kehoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | keho | kehot | ||
accusative | nom. | keho | kehot | |
gen. | kehon | |||
genitive | kehon | kehojen | ||
partitive | kehoa | kehoja | ||
inessive | kehossa | kehoissa | ||
elative | kehosta | kehoista | ||
illative | kehoon | kehoihin | ||
adessive | keholla | kehoilla | ||
ablative | keholta | kehoilta | ||
allative | keholle | kehoille | ||
essive | kehona | kehoina | ||
translative | kehoksi | kehoiksi | ||
abessive | kehotta | kehoitta | ||
instructive | — | kehoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |