neitsyt
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *näic'üt (compare Estonian neitsi, Karelian neičyt (“girl, maiden”), Livonian neitst, Veps neitšud, Votic neitsüd (“daughter-in-law, fiancée”)),[1][2] a diminutive derived from the same root as neiti, neito,[3] probably as neit- + -(i)(t)s- + -yt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnei̯tsyt/, [ˈne̞i̯ts̠yt̪]
- Rhymes: -eitsyt
- Syllabification(key): neit‧syt
- Hyphenation(key): neit‧syt
- In dialects, where 'native' ⟨ts⟩ (< *cc) can have different reflexes, neitsyt may still unusually be pronounced with [-ts-].
Noun
[edit]neitsyt
- virgin (person, especially a female one, who has never had sexual intercourse)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of neitsyt (Kotus type 43/ohut, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | neitsyt | neitsyet | |
| genitive | neitsyen | neitsyiden neitsyitten | |
| partitive | neitsyttä | neitsyitä | |
| illative | neitsyeen | neitsyisiin neitsyihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | neitsyt | neitsyet | |
| accusative | nom. | neitsyt | neitsyet |
| gen. | neitsyen | ||
| genitive | neitsyen | neitsyiden neitsyitten | |
| partitive | neitsyttä | neitsyitä | |
| inessive | neitsyessä | neitsyissä | |
| elative | neitsyestä | neitsyistä | |
| illative | neitsyeen | neitsyisiin neitsyihin | |
| adessive | neitsyellä | neitsyillä | |
| ablative | neitsyeltä | neitsyiltä | |
| allative | neitsyelle | neitsyille | |
| essive | neitsyenä | neitsyinä | |
| translative | neitsyeksi | neitsyiksi | |
| abessive | neitsyettä | neitsyittä | |
| instructive | — | neitsyin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
In spoken language, the genitive singular can be neitsyeen and the illative singular neitsyeeseen – these forms are proscribed. This confusion is due to the similarity of the nouns ending in -ue / -ye, like joukkue (“team”) (illative singular joukkueeseen), yhtye (“band, musical group”) (illative singular yhtyeeseen).
Synonyms
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compounds
References
[edit]- ^ Kallio, Petri (2020–), “*näic-cüt”, in Yhteissuomalainen sanasto [Common Finnic Vocabulary][1] (in Finnish)
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
- ^ Santeri Junttila, Petri Kallio, Sampsa Holopainen, Juha Kuokkala, Juho Pystynen, editors (2020–), “neitsyt”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[2] (in Finnish), retrieved 23 August 2026
Further reading
[edit]- “neitsyt”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (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
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -inen
- Finnish terms suffixed with -ut (nominal)
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eitsyt
- Rhymes:Finnish/eitsyt/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish ohut-type nominals