toonela

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish tuonela at the end of the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoˑnelɑ/, [ˈtoˑnelɑ]
• Rhymes: -oˑnelɑ
• Hyphenation: too‧ne‧la

Noun

toonela (genitive toonela, partitive toonelat)

1. (Finnic mythology) a mythical place where all people go after death, equvalent to the underworld

   Synonym: manala

   toonela teele minema (idiomatic, poetic) ― to die (literally, “to embark on the road of toonela”)

Declension

Declension of toonela (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		toonela	toonelad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	toonela
genitive			toonelate
partitive		toonelat	toonelaid
illative		toonelasse	toonelatesse toonelaisse
inessive		toonelas	toonelates toonelais
elative		toonelast	toonelatest toonelaist
allative		toonelale	toonelatele toonelaile
adessive		toonelal	toonelatel toonelail
ablative		toonelalt	toonelatelt toonelailt
translative		toonelaks	toonelateks toonelaiks
terminative		toonelani	toonelateni
essive		toonelana	toonelatena
abessive		toonelata	toonelateta
comitative		toonelaga	toonelatega

Derived terms

• toonelane

 

Related terms

• toonekurg
• toonesepp

 

References

• toonela in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “toonela”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009