palkki
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish balk or bjälke, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *balkô.
Pronunciation
Noun
palkki
- beam (long piece of timber, metal or concrete used in construction as horizontal support)
- horizontal bar (on top or bottom of a newspaper page or article, television screen etc)
- (music) beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value)
- (heraldry) bend (strip from dexter chief (upper right corner) to sinister base of the shield)
- (telecommunications) bar (of signal, etc.)
Usage notes
- (bend): A strip from sinister chief to dexter base is called vastapalkki.
Declension
Inflection of palkki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation) | ||||
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nominative | palkki | palkit | ||
genitive | palkin | palkkien | ||
partitive | palkkia | palkkeja | ||
illative | palkkiin | palkkeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | palkki | palkit | ||
accusative | nom. | palkki | palkit | |
gen. | palkin | |||
genitive | palkin | palkkien | ||
partitive | palkkia | palkkeja | ||
inessive | palkissa | palkeissa | ||
elative | palkista | palkeista | ||
illative | palkkiin | palkkeihin | ||
adessive | palkilla | palkeilla | ||
ablative | palkilta | palkeilta | ||
allative | palkille | palkeille | ||
essive | palkkina | palkkeina | ||
translative | palkiksi | palkeiksi | ||
abessive | palkitta | palkeitta | ||
instructive | — | palkein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |