purjo
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Shortened from purjosipuli (“leek”), a partial calque of Swedish purjolök (lök was translated as sipuli).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]purjo
- leek, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum (vegetable, having edible leaves and a milder flavour than the onion)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of purjo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | purjo | purjot | |
genitive | purjon | purjojen | |
partitive | purjoa | purjoja | |
illative | purjoon | purjoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | purjo | purjot | |
accusative | nom. | purjo | purjot |
gen. | purjon | ||
genitive | purjon | purjojen | |
partitive | purjoa | purjoja | |
inessive | purjossa | purjoissa | |
elative | purjosta | purjoista | |
illative | purjoon | purjoihin | |
adessive | purjolla | purjoilla | |
ablative | purjolta | purjoilta | |
allative | purjolle | purjoille | |
essive | purjona | purjoina | |
translative | purjoksi | purjoiksi | |
abessive | purjotta | purjoitta | |
instructive | — | purjoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “purjo”, 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
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin porrum. Attested since the 15th century.
Noun
[edit]purjo c
- Synonym of purjolök (“leek”) (usually as an ingredient)
- (slang) a dolt (as an invective)
- Ditt purjo
- You dolt
Declension
[edit]Declension of purjo
nominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | purjo | purjos |
definite | purjon | purjons | |
plural | indefinite | — | — |
definite | — | — |
References
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms partially calqued from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/urjo
- Rhymes:Finnish/urjo/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- fi:Vegetables
- Swedish terms borrowed from Latin
- Swedish terms derived from Latin
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish slang
- Swedish terms with usage examples