puinti
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]puida (“to thresh; thrash out”) + -nti
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈpui̯nti/, [ˈpui̯n̪t̪i]
- Rhymes: -uinti
- Syllabification(key): puin‧ti
- Hyphenation(key): puin‧ti
Noun
[edit]puinti
- threshing (separation of grain from the straw or husks)
- cornhusking (removal of the husk from corn)
- (figuratively) handling, of an issue
- Ehdotukseni puinti lautakunnassa kesti vuosia.
- The handling of my proposal took years in the subcommittee.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of puinti (Kotus type 5*J/risti, nt–nn gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | puinti | puinnit | |
| genitive | puinnin | puintien | |
| partitive | puintia | puinteja | |
| illative | puintiin | puinteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | puinti | puinnit | |
| accusative | nom. | puinti | puinnit |
| gen. | puinnin | ||
| genitive | puinnin | puintien | |
| partitive | puintia | puinteja | |
| inessive | puinnissa | puinneissa | |
| elative | puinnista | puinneista | |
| illative | puintiin | puinteihin | |
| adessive | puinnilla | puinneilla | |
| ablative | puinnilta | puinneilta | |
| allative | puinnille | puinneille | |
| essive | puintina | puinteina | |
| translative | puinniksi | puinneiksi | |
| abessive | puinnitta | puinneitta | |
| instructive | — | puinnein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “puinti”, 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