luukku
Appearance
Finnish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from dialectal Swedish luka (standard Swedish lucka).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈluːkːu/, [ˈluːkːu]
- Rhymes: -uːkːu
- Syllabification(key): luuk‧ku
- Hyphenation(key): luuk‧ku
Noun
[edit]luukku
- hatch, window, pass through (opening in a wall at window height for serving food or other items)
- Kokki ojensi annokset tarjoiluluukun kautta.
- The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.
- hatch (small door for maintenance in large mechanical structure)
- Synonym: huoltoluukku
- hatch, trapdoor, trap (horizontal door in a floor or ceiling)
- hatch, scuttle (opening that provides access to the roof from the interior of a building)
- kattoluukku ― roof hatch
- (nautical) hatch, scuttle (opening through the deck of a ship or submarine)
- Sulkekaa luukut! ― Close the hatches!
- door (flap that acts like a door)
- käkikellon luukku ― cuckoo clock door
- slot (narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially one with a hinged cover)
- postiluukku ― mail slot
- (construction) outlet, vent (vent or similar passage to allow the escape of something)
- savunpoistoluukku ― smoke outlet
- wicket, window (service window, as in a bank or train station)
- lippuluukku ― ticket window
- drop (trapdoor in a gallows)
- (slang) fence (someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, place of this activity)
- (colloquial, often derogatory) ellipsis of postiluukku
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of luukku (Kotus type 1*A/valo, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | luukku | luukut | |
| genitive | luukun | luukkujen | |
| partitive | luukkua | luukkuja | |
| illative | luukkuun | luukkuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | luukku | luukut | |
| accusative | nom. | luukku | luukut |
| gen. | luukun | ||
| genitive | luukun | luukkujen | |
| partitive | luukkua | luukkuja | |
| inessive | luukussa | luukuissa | |
| elative | luukusta | luukuista | |
| illative | luukkuun | luukkuihin | |
| adessive | luukulla | luukuilla | |
| ablative | luukulta | luukuilta | |
| allative | luukulle | luukuille | |
| essive | luukkuna | luukkuina | |
| translative | luukuksi | luukuiksi | |
| abessive | luukutta | luukuitta | |
| instructive | — | luukuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- huoltoluukku
- ikkunaluukku
- kattoluukku
- kirjeluukku
- kissanluukku
- koiranluukku
- kulkuluukku
- lantaluukku
- lastiluukku
- lattialuukku
- lippuluukku
- luukkukirja
- luukkuunkanto
- nokiluukku
- nuohousluukku
- paloluukku
- postiluukku
- salaluukku
- savuluukku
- savunpoistoluukku
- seinäluukku
- sontaluukku
- sosiaaliluukku
- suksiluukku
- sulkuluukku
- suuluukku
- takaluukku
- tarjoiluluukku
- tirkistysluukku
- tuhkaluukku
- tulvaluukku
- tuuletusluukku
- uuninluukku
- vauvaluukku
- vetoluukku
Further reading
[edit]- “luukku”, 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 3 July 2023
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- Rhymes:Finnish/uːkːu
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- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
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- fi:Nautical
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