nuija
See also: Nuija
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *nuija.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nuija
- club, cudgel (heavy stick intended for use as a weapon)
- luolamiehen nuija ― caveman's club
- mallet (type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material)
- maul (heavy, long-handled hammer)
- bludgeon (short, heavy club, which is thicker or loaded at one end)
- gavel; often also puheenjohtajan nuija (“chairman's gavel”) for clarity (wooden mallet of the chairman of a meeting)
- Hän oli sellainen tuomari, joka heiluttaa nuijaa yhdellä kädellä ja ottaa lahjuksia toisella.
- He was the sort of judge who swings the gavel with one hand and takes bribes with the other.
- (figuratively, idiomatic) kuin nuijalla lyöty (“packed full”)
- Huone oli kuin nuijalla lyöty.
- The room was (absolutely) packed.
- (music) Synonym of malletti (“mallet; small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments”)
- (colloquial) fool, idiot, clod
Declension edit
Inflection of nuija (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | nuija | nuijat | ||
genitive | nuijan | nuijien | ||
partitive | nuijaa | nuijia | ||
illative | nuijaan | nuijiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | nuija | nuijat | ||
accusative | nom. | nuija | nuijat | |
gen. | nuijan | |||
genitive | nuijan | nuijien nuijainrare | ||
partitive | nuijaa | nuijia | ||
inessive | nuijassa | nuijissa | ||
elative | nuijasta | nuijista | ||
illative | nuijaan | nuijiin | ||
adessive | nuijalla | nuijilla | ||
ablative | nuijalta | nuijilta | ||
allative | nuijalle | nuijille | ||
essive | nuijana | nuijina | ||
translative | nuijaksi | nuijiksi | ||
abessive | nuijatta | nuijitta | ||
instructive | — | nuijin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “nuija”, 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 2023-07-03