rinnus
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *rindus. Equivalent to rinta (“breast, chest”) + -us.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈrinːus/, [ˈrinːus̠]
- Rhymes: -inːus
- Syllabification(key): rin‧nus
- Hyphenation(key): rin‧nus
Noun
[edit]rinnus
- breast (section of clothing covering the breast area)
- (chiefly in the plural) one half (or both) halves of the front of a garment covering the breast/chest area
- the top of a shoe (especially behind the toes); vamp, upper
- (dated) synonym of rinnustin (“(equestrianism) breast strap; breast collar”)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of rinnus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | rinnus | rinnukset | |
| genitive | rinnuksen | rinnusten rinnuksien | |
| partitive | rinnusta | rinnuksia | |
| illative | rinnukseen | rinnuksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rinnus | rinnukset | |
| accusative | nom. | rinnus | rinnukset |
| gen. | rinnuksen | ||
| genitive | rinnuksen | rinnusten rinnuksien | |
| partitive | rinnusta | rinnuksia | |
| inessive | rinnuksessa | rinnuksissa | |
| elative | rinnuksesta | rinnuksista | |
| illative | rinnukseen | rinnuksiin | |
| adessive | rinnuksella | rinnuksilla | |
| ablative | rinnukselta | rinnuksilta | |
| allative | rinnukselle | rinnuksille | |
| essive | rinnuksena | rinnuksina | |
| translative | rinnukseksi | rinnuksiksi | |
| abessive | rinnuksetta | rinnuksitta | |
| instructive | — | rinnuksin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- “rinnus”, 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
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms suffixed with -us (association)
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/inːus
- Rhymes:Finnish/inːus/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish dated terms
- Finnish vastaus-type nominals