tolppa
Appearance
See also: Tolppa
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish stolpe, from Proto-Germanic *stulpô. Doublet of tulppa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtolpːɑ/, [ˈt̪o̞lpːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -olpːɑ
- Syllabification(key): tolp‧pa
- Hyphenation(key): tolp‧pa
Noun
[edit]tolppa
- post, pole, stilt, stake (long piece of heavy timber or other material protruding out of ground)
- Synonym: paalu
- bollard (post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area etc.)
- (ball games) ellipsis of maalitolppa (“goal post”)
- Synonym: rauta
- (pesäpallo) a high pitch, intended to be difficult to hit
- (colloquial) 12-pack of beer
- Synonym: mäyräkoira
- (informal) taxi stand, taxicab stand
- (colloquial) synonym of torni (“10 cases of snus”)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tolppa (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp–p gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tolppa | tolpat | |
| genitive | tolpan | tolppien | |
| partitive | tolppaa | tolppia | |
| illative | tolppaan | tolppiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tolppa | tolpat | |
| accusative | nom. | tolppa | tolpat |
| gen. | tolpan | ||
| genitive | tolpan | tolppien tolppain rare | |
| partitive | tolppaa | tolppia | |
| inessive | tolpassa | tolpissa | |
| elative | tolpasta | tolpista | |
| illative | tolppaan | tolppiin | |
| adessive | tolpalla | tolpilla | |
| ablative | tolpalta | tolpilta | |
| allative | tolpalle | tolpille | |
| essive | tolppana | tolppina | |
| translative | tolpaksi | tolpiksi | |
| abessive | tolpatta | tolpitta | |
| instructive | — | tolpin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tolppa”, 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 borrowed from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish doublets
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/olpːɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/olpːɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Ball games
- Finnish ellipses
- fi:Pesäpallo
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish informal terms
- Finnish koira-type nominals
- fi:Roads