tiistai
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish tisdagher[1] (or another North Germanic language[2]), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Tīwas dag.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtiːstɑi̯/, [ˈt̪iːs̠tɑ̝i̯]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iːstɑi
- Syllabification(key): tiis‧tai
- Hyphenation(key): tiis‧tai
Noun
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tiistai
- Tuesday (day of the week; the second day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)
- tiistaina tikut vuoltiin (from an old rhyme) ― on Tuesday, the sticks were whittled
Usage notes
[edit]As with all days of the week in Finnish, the essive case (tiistaina) is usually used when talking about what will happen or happened on a Tuesday.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tiistai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tiistai | tiistait | |
| genitive | tiistain | tiistaiden tiistaitten | |
| partitive | tiistaita | tiistaita | |
| illative | tiistaihin | tiistaihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tiistai | tiistait | |
| accusative | nom. | tiistai | tiistait |
| gen. | tiistain | ||
| genitive | tiistain | tiistaiden tiistaitten | |
| partitive | tiistaita | tiistaita | |
| inessive | tiistaissa | tiistaissa | |
| elative | tiistaista | tiistaista | |
| illative | tiistaihin | tiistaihin | |
| adessive | tiistailla | tiistailla | |
| ablative | tiistailta | tiistailta | |
| allative | tiistaille | tiistaille | |
| essive | tiistaina | tiistaina | |
| translative | tiistaiksi | tiistaiksi | |
| abessive | tiistaitta | tiistaitta | |
| instructive | — | tiistain | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]- (abbreviation) ti
- days of the week: viikonpäivä (appendix): maanantai · tiistai · keskiviikko · torstai · perjantai · lauantai · sunnuntai [edit]
References
[edit]- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004), Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
- ^ Erkki Itkonen, Ulla-Maija Kulonen, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “tiistai”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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 borrowed from Old Swedish
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- Finnish terms derived from North Germanic languages
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Finnish/iːstɑi
- Rhymes:Finnish/iːstɑi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish maa-type nominals
- fi:Days of the week