pellava
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *pëllavas, of unknown further origin. Related to dialectal pellavas, Karelian pelvas and Veps pölvaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pellava
- (botany) flax
- linen
- pellava muuttuu kullaksi ja villa mullaksi (aphorism) ― linen lasts much longer than wool (literally, “linen becomes gold and wool [becomes] dust”)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of pellava (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pellava | pellavat | |
genitive | pellavan | pellavien | |
partitive | pellavaa | pellavia | |
illative | pellavaan | pellaviin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pellava | pellavat | |
accusative | nom. | pellava | pellavat |
gen. | pellavan | ||
genitive | pellavan | pellavien pellavain rare | |
partitive | pellavaa | pellavia | |
inessive | pellavassa | pellavissa | |
elative | pellavasta | pellavista | |
illative | pellavaan | pellaviin | |
adessive | pellavalla | pellavilla | |
ablative | pellavalta | pellavilta | |
allative | pellavalle | pellaville | |
essive | pellavana | pellavina | |
translative | pellavaksi | pellaviksi | |
abessive | pellavatta | pellavitta | |
instructive | — | pellavin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “pellava”, 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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