merileijona
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]meri (“sea”) + leijona (“lion”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmeriˌlei̯jonɑ/, [ˈme̞riˌle̞i̯j(ː)o̞nɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -eijonɑ
- Syllabification(key): me‧ri‧lei‧jo‧na
Noun
[edit]merileijona (dated)
- sea lion (certain seals in the family Otariidae)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of merileijona (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | merileijona | merileijonat | |
genitive | merileijonan | merileijonien | |
partitive | merileijonaa | merileijonia | |
illative | merileijonaan | merileijoniin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | merileijona | merileijonat | |
accusative | nom. | merileijona | merileijonat |
gen. | merileijonan | ||
genitive | merileijonan | merileijonien merileijonain rare | |
partitive | merileijonaa | merileijonia | |
inessive | merileijonassa | merileijonissa | |
elative | merileijonasta | merileijonista | |
illative | merileijonaan | merileijoniin | |
adessive | merileijonalla | merileijonilla | |
ablative | merileijonalta | merileijonilta | |
allative | merileijonalle | merileijonille | |
essive | merileijonana | merileijonina | |
translative | merileijonaksi | merileijoniksi | |
abessive | merileijonatta | merileijonitta | |
instructive | — | merileijonin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- australianmerileijona (“Neophoca cinerea”)
- galapagoksenmerileijona (“Zalophus wollebaeki”)
- galapagosinmerileijona
- japaninmerileijona (“Zalophus japonicus”)
- kalifornianmerileijona (“Zalophus californianus”)
- patagonianmerileijona (“Otaria flavescens (O. byronia)”)
- stellerinmerileijona (“Eumetopias jubatus”)
- tasmanianmerileijona (“Neophoca cinerea”)
- uudenseelanninmerileijona
Further reading
[edit]- “merileijona”, 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 2023-07-03