tulkki
Appearance
See also: Tulkki
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Swedish tolker, itself ultimately borrowed from Proto-Slavic *tъlkъ, probably from Proto-Indo-European *telkʷ-.
- (gauge): Also found in Swedish tolk, possibly a later semantic loan.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtulkːi/, [ˈt̪ulkːi]
- Rhymes: -ulkːi
- Syllabification(key): tulk‧ki
- Hyphenation(key): tulk‧ki
Noun
[edit]tulkki
- interpreter (person who translates speech or signing from one language to another)
- interpreter (one who interprets e.g. a text, a poem or emotions)
- Synonym: tulkitsija
- (programming) interpreter (program that interprets and executes code)
- Synonym: ohjelmatulkki
- a gauge (a measuring instrument used to determine whether an object is of a certain size or shape)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of tulkki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk–k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tulkki | tulkit | |
| genitive | tulkin | tulkkien | |
| partitive | tulkkia | tulkkeja | |
| illative | tulkkiin | tulkkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tulkki | tulkit | |
| accusative | nom. | tulkki | tulkit |
| gen. | tulkin | ||
| genitive | tulkin | tulkkien | |
| partitive | tulkkia | tulkkeja | |
| inessive | tulkissa | tulkeissa | |
| elative | tulkista | tulkeista | |
| illative | tulkkiin | tulkkeihin | |
| adessive | tulkilla | tulkeilla | |
| ablative | tulkilta | tulkeilta | |
| allative | tulkille | tulkeille | |
| essive | tulkkina | tulkkeina | |
| translative | tulkiksi | tulkeiksi | |
| abessive | tulkitta | tulkeitta | |
| instructive | — | tulkein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “tulkki”, 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
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Finnish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *telkʷ-
- Finnish terms borrowed from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulkːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ulkːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Programming
- Finnish risti-type nominals