ypöyksin

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Finnish

Etymology

A reduplicated formation built on yksin; compare täpötäysi and others listed there. The reduplicant ypö was later treated as a separate word and elaborated to ypösen.

Adverb

ypöyksin

  1. all alone
    Koira jätettiin ypöyksin.
    The dog was left all alone.

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