sonta
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *sonta, from Proto-Uralic *śonta. Cognate with Estonian sõnnik and Western Mari шандӹ (šandÿ).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsontɑ/, [ˈs̠o̞n̪t̪ɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ontɑ
- Syllabification(key): son‧ta
- Hyphenation(key): son‧ta
Noun
[edit]sonta
- dung, manure (animal excrement, animal faeces)
- Near-synonym: lanta
- sitä enemmän sonta haisee, kun sitä pöyhii ― the more you stir it, the more it stinks (literally, “the more dung will stink the more you move it around”)
- crap (nonsense)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of sonta (Kotus type 10*J/koira, nt–nn gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sonta | sonnat | |
| genitive | sonnan | sontien | |
| partitive | sontaa | sontia | |
| illative | sontaan | sontiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sonta | sonnat | |
| accusative | nom. | sonta | sonnat |
| gen. | sonnan | ||
| genitive | sonnan | sontien sontain rare | |
| partitive | sontaa | sontia | |
| inessive | sonnassa | sonnissa | |
| elative | sonnasta | sonnista | |
| illative | sontaan | sontiin | |
| adessive | sonnalla | sonnilla | |
| ablative | sonnalta | sonnilta | |
| allative | sonnalle | sonnille | |
| essive | sontana | sontina | |
| translative | sonnaksi | sonniksi | |
| abessive | sonnatta | sonnitta | |
| instructive | — | sonnin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sonta”, 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
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- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Uralic
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ontɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ontɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
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