rosvopaisti
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of rosvo (“robber”) + paisti (“roast”), "robber's roast"; the word broke into common vocabulary and the dish was made popular by Veikko Huovinen's book Lampaansyöjät (1970), in which the main characters stole sheep and prepared them for food in heated earth pits.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈrosʋoˌpɑi̯sti/, [ˈro̞s̠ʋo̞ˌpɑ̝i̯s̠ti]
- Rhymes: -ɑisti
- Syllabification(key): ros‧vo‧pais‧ti
Noun
[edit]rosvopaisti
- A hunk of meat, preferably a leg of lamb, prepared for food in an earth oven .
Declension
[edit]Inflection of rosvopaisti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit | |
genitive | rosvopaistin | rosvopaistien | |
partitive | rosvopaistia | rosvopaisteja | |
illative | rosvopaistiin | rosvopaisteihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit | |
accusative | nom. | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit |
gen. | rosvopaistin | ||
genitive | rosvopaistin | rosvopaistien | |
partitive | rosvopaistia | rosvopaisteja | |
inessive | rosvopaistissa | rosvopaisteissa | |
elative | rosvopaistista | rosvopaisteista | |
illative | rosvopaistiin | rosvopaisteihin | |
adessive | rosvopaistilla | rosvopaisteilla | |
ablative | rosvopaistilta | rosvopaisteilta | |
allative | rosvopaistille | rosvopaisteille | |
essive | rosvopaistina | rosvopaisteina | |
translative | rosvopaistiksi | rosvopaisteiksi | |
abessive | rosvopaistitta | rosvopaisteitta | |
instructive | — | rosvopaistein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “rosvopaisti”, 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