kelirikko
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From keli (“weather on the ground”) + rikko (“breakage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkeliˌrikːo/, [ˈk̟e̞liˌrikːo̞]
- Rhymes: -ikːo
- Syllabification(key): ke‧li‧rik‧ko
- Hyphenation(key): keli‧rikko
Noun
[edit]kelirikko
- mud season (time of year in cold climates when dirt roads turn impassable due to heavy rains, melting snow and/or thawing ground frost); similarly in waterways when ice is preventing use of boats but it is not strong enough to walk/drive
- Synonym: (dialectal) rospuutto
- 2021 May 20, Tanja Heikkonen, Sanna Kähkönen, Kainuun prikaati auttaa Kuusamossa rospuuton varaan jääneitä – telakuorma-autolla pääsee hankalistakin paikoista[1], sourced from Yle, retrieved 13.1.2022:
- Kuusamon kelirikko on poikkeuksellisen vaikea.
- The mud season in Kuusamo is particularly difficult.
- road damage caused by a mud season
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kelirikko (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk–k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kelirikko | kelirikot | |
| genitive | kelirikon | kelirikkojen | |
| partitive | kelirikkoa | kelirikkoja | |
| illative | kelirikkoon | kelirikkoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kelirikko | kelirikot | |
| accusative | nom. | kelirikko | kelirikot |
| gen. | kelirikon | ||
| genitive | kelirikon | kelirikkojen | |
| partitive | kelirikkoa | kelirikkoja | |
| inessive | kelirikossa | kelirikoissa | |
| elative | kelirikosta | kelirikoista | |
| illative | kelirikkoon | kelirikkoihin | |
| adessive | kelirikolla | kelirikoilla | |
| ablative | kelirikolta | kelirikoilta | |
| allative | kelirikolle | kelirikoille | |
| essive | kelirikkona | kelirikkoina | |
| translative | kelirikoksi | kelirikoiksi | |
| abessive | kelirikotta | kelirikoitta | |
| instructive | — | kelirikoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “kelirikko”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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
