mieluusti

Finnish

Etymology

mieli +‎ -ut +‎ -sti (from a hapax legomenon mielut, compare mieluinen, mieluisa; the regular form would be *mieluesti in which the sequence -ue- has simplified into -uu-)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmie̯luːstiˣ/, [ˈmie̞̯luːs̠ti(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ieluːsti
• Syllabification^(key): mie‧luus‧ti

Adverb

mieluusti (comparative mieluummin, superlative mieluiten)

1. certainly, willingly, gladly, with pleasure

Further reading

• “mieluusti”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[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