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See also: Nuija
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *nuija.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuija
- club, cudgel (heavy stick intended for use as a weapon)
- luolamiehen nuija ― caveman's club
- mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material)
- maul (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- bludgeon (short, heavy club, which is thicker or loaded at one end)
- gavel; often also puheenjohtajan nuija (“chairman's gavel”) for clarity (wooden mallet of the chairman of a meeting)
- Hän oli sellainen tuomari, joka heiluttaa nuijaa yhdellä kädellä ja ottaa lahjuksia toisella.
- He was the sort of judge who swings the gavel with one hand and takes bribes with the other.
- (figuratively, idiomatic) kuin nuijalla lyöty (“packed full”)
- Huone oli kuin nuijalla lyöty.
- The room was (absolutely) packed.
- (music) Synonym of malletti (“mallet; small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments”)
- (colloquial) fool, idiot, clod
Declension
[edit]Inflection of nuija (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | nuija | nuijat | |
genitive | nuijan | nuijien | |
partitive | nuijaa | nuijia | |
illative | nuijaan | nuijiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | nuija | nuijat | |
accusative | nom. | nuija | nuijat |
gen. | nuijan | ||
genitive | nuijan | nuijien nuijain rare | |
partitive | nuijaa | nuijia | |
inessive | nuijassa | nuijissa | |
elative | nuijasta | nuijista | |
illative | nuijaan | nuijiin | |
adessive | nuijalla | nuijilla | |
ablative | nuijalta | nuijilta | |
allative | nuijalle | nuijille | |
essive | nuijana | nuijina | |
translative | nuijaksi | nuijiksi | |
abessive | nuijatta | nuijitta | |
instructive | — | nuijin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “nuija”, 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
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- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uijɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/uijɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish idioms
- fi:Music
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish koira-type nominals