nuija
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See also: Nuija
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *nuija.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈnui̯jɑ/, [ˈnui̯j(ː)ɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -uijɑ
- Syllabification(key): nui‧ja
- Hyphenation(key): nui‧ja
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 (wooden mallet of the chairman of a meeting)
- puheenjohtajan nuija ― chairman's gavel
- 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.
- (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) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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idioms
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 3 July 2023
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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
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- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish koira-type nominals
