sormi

See also: sõrmi

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sormi, From Proto-Finno-Ugric *sorme. Cognates include Estonian sõrm, Northern Sami suorbma and Mordvin sur.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sor‧mi
• IPA^(key): /ˈsormi/

Noun

sormi

1. (anatomy) A finger (one of the five extremities of the hand).

   Ihmiskädessä on viisi sormea: peukalo, etusormi, keskisormi, nimetön ja pikkusormi.

   The human hand has five fingers: the thumb, the forefinger, the middle finger, the ring finger and the little finger.

2. A finger (extremity of an animal's forelimb, which resembles human finger).
3. A finger (any object which resembles a finger, such as a part of a mechanical device).

Declension

Inflection of sormi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative		sormi	sormet
genitive		sormen	sormien
partitive		sormea	sormia
illative		sormeen	sormiin
		singular	plural
nominative		sormi	sormet
accusative	nom.	sormi	sormet
	gen.	sormen
genitive		sormen	sormien
partitive		sormea	sormia
inessive		sormessa	sormissa
elative		sormesta	sormista
illative		sormeen	sormiin
adessive		sormella	sormilla
ablative		sormelta	sormilta
allative		sormelle	sormille
essive		sormena	sormina
translative		sormeksi	sormiksi
instructive		—	sormin
abessive		sormetta	sormitta
comitative		—	sormineen

Derived terms

• sormeilla
• sormikas

• sormio
• sormitus

• sormus
• sormustin

compounds

• etusormi
• keskisormi
• pikkusormi
• sormenjälki
• sormenkynsi
• sormenkärki
• sormenpää
• sormiaakkonen
• sormieläin

• sormihaarainen
• sormijakoinen
• sormihalkoinen
• sormiharjoitus
• sormikoukku
• sormilauta
• sormilihas
• sormiliuskainen

• sormiluu
• sormimerkki
• sorminivel
• sorminäppäryys
• sormiosainen
• sormisääntö
• sormiväli
• taikasormi