miekka
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *mëëkka, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *mēkijaz or its Gothic descendant (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more). Cognate with Estonian mõõk and Livonian mȭk.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmie̯kːɑ/, [ˈmie̞̯kːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -iekːɑ
- Syllabification(key): miek‧ka
- Hyphenation(key): miek‧ka
Noun
[edit]miekka
- sword
- (tarot, in the plural, usually capitalized) swords
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of miekka (Kotus type 9*A/kala, kk–k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | miekka | miekat | |
| genitive | miekan | miekkojen | |
| partitive | miekkaa | miekkoja | |
| illative | miekkaan | miekkoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | miekka | miekat | |
| accusative | nom. | miekka | miekat |
| gen. | miekan | ||
| genitive | miekan | miekkojen miekkain rare | |
| partitive | miekkaa | miekkoja | |
| inessive | miekassa | miekoissa | |
| elative | miekasta | miekoista | |
| illative | miekkaan | miekkoihin | |
| adessive | miekalla | miekoilla | |
| ablative | miekalta | miekoilta | |
| allative | miekalle | miekoille | |
| essive | miekkana | miekkoina | |
| translative | miekaksi | miekoiksi | |
| abessive | miekatta | miekoitta | |
| instructive | — | miekoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “miekka”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iekːɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/iekːɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Cartomancy
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- fi:Weapons
