Suomi
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈswɔːmɪ/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈswɔmi/
Proper nounEdit
Suomi
- Finland.
- Finnish (language).
- 1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90
- Suomi occupies the greater part of Finland
- 1888, Canon Isaac Taylor, "The Origin and Primitive Seat of the Aryans", The journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17, page 266
- The Finnic languages show that the primitive people were clad only in the skins of animals since the skin or hide of an animal is kut in Wotiak, ked in Mordwin and kete in Suomi.
- 2011, John O'Neill and Steve Johansson, "Ladies and the Vamps", Knights of the Dinner Table: The Java Joint, →ISBN, page 32:
- "I THOUGHT HIS SITE WAS ENTIRELY IN SUOMI." "IF THAT MEANS IT'S GOT MORE DOTS OVER THE VOWELS THAN AN EIGHTIES HEAVY METAL ALBUM, I'LL TAKE YOUR WORD FOR IT."
- 1877, Abel Hovelacque, The Science of Language, page 90
- Finn (people)
- 1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69
- Over and above the 1,800,000 odd they number in Finland, the Suomi come in for about 250,000 more in the population of the adjacent Russian governments.
- 1963, Francis Peabody Magoun Jr. (trans.), The Kalevala: Or, Poems of the Kaleva District
- the original homeland of the Suomi tribe (suomalaiset).
- 1987, Gabriel Weisberg & Laurinda Dixon, The Documented Image, page 191
- the mythology of the Finnic peoples (the Suomi and Karelians)
- 1997, Eric Christiansen, The Northern Crusades,
- Nevertheless, a community of Christians had been established among the Suomi (south-west Finns), and in 1215 there was a Finnish convert […] The motives of the Swedes who went into Suomi lands, and of the Suomi who accepted their faith and paid tithe to their bishop, can only be conjectured.
- 1893 Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians, translation of the third edition by Z.A. Ragozin, page 69
NounEdit
Suomi (uncountable)
- (music) A freeform variation of psytrance music said to originate in Finland, where it is called suomisaundi.
ReferencesEdit
“Suomi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “Suomi”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *soomi, probably from earlier *sämä and related to Proto-Samic *sāmē (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more details). The name originally referred only to the area now known as Southwest Finland (Varsinais-Suomi (literally “Finland Proper”)). Cognates include Estonian Soome, Ingrian Soomi, Livonian sūom, Votic soomi and (borrowed) Northern Sami Suopma.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Suomi
- (uncountable) Finland (country)
- Synonyms: Suomenmaa, Suomen tasavalta
- a surname
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of Suomi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Suomi | Suomet | ||
| genitive | Suomen | Suomien | ||
| partitive | Suomea | Suomia | ||
| illative | Suomeen | Suomiin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Suomi | Suomet | ||
| accusative | nom. | Suomi | Suomet | |
| gen. | Suomen | |||
| genitive | Suomen | Suomien | ||
| partitive | Suomea | Suomia | ||
| inessive | Suomessa | Suomissa | ||
| elative | Suomesta | Suomista | ||
| illative | Suomeen | Suomiin | ||
| adessive | Suomella | Suomilla | ||
| ablative | Suomelta | Suomilta | ||
| allative | Suomelle | Suomille | ||
| essive | Suomena | Suomina | ||
| translative | Suomeksi | Suomiksi | ||
| instructive | — | Suomin | ||
| abessive | Suometta | Suomitta | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived termsEdit
- adjectives: suomalainen, suomensukuinen
- nouns: Suomi-neito, Suomi-poika
- proper nouns: Suomenlahti, Suomenniemi, Suur-Suomi
- verbs: suomalaistaa, suomalaistua, suomentaa, suomettua
CompoundsEdit
- suomenajokoira
- suomenhevonen
- suomenkarja
- suomenlaiva
- suomenmestari
- suomenpystykorva
- suomenruotsi
- suomimakkara
- suomipoika
Related termsEdit
- suomi (language)
DescendantsEdit
- Kven: Suomi
- Meänkieli: Suomi
- → Abkhaz: Суоми (Swomi)
- → English: Suomi (rare)
- → Erzya: Суоми (Suomi)
- → Esperanto: Suomio
- → Ingrian: Suomi
- → Latvian: Somija
- → Lithuanian: Suomija
- → Eastern Mari: Суоми (Suomi)
- → Moksha: Суоми (Suomi)
- → Old Church Slavonic: Соумь (Sumĭ)
- → Old East Slavic: Сумь (Sumĭ)
- → Russian: Суо́ми (Suómi) (rare)
- Sami:
- → Scottish Gaelic: Suòmaidh
- → Volapük: Suomiyän
IngrianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Finnish Suomi. The native equivalent still exists as Soomi.
PronunciationEdit
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈsuomi/, [ˈs̠uo̞m]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈsuomi/, [ˈʃuo̞mi]
- Rhymes: -uom, -uomi
- Hyphenation: Su‧o‧mi
Proper nounEdit
Suomi
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of Suomi (type 5/lehti, no gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | Suomi | — |
| genitive | Suomen | — |
| partitive | Suomia | — |
| illative | Suomee | — |
| inessive | Suomees | — |
| elative | Suomest | — |
| allative | Suomelle | — |
| adessive | Suomeel | — |
| ablative | Suomelt | — |
| translative | Suomeks | — |
| essive | Suomenna, Suomeen | — |
| exessive1) | Suoment | — |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli (1936), P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46
KarelianEdit
Proper nounEdit
Suomi (genitive Suomen, partitive Suomie)
ReferencesEdit
- P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “Suomi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
LivviEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably either borrowed from or cognate with Finnish Suomi. ultimately from Proto-Finnic *soomi. Cognates include Estonian Soome and Karelian Suomi.
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Suomi
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 266
MeänkieliEdit
EtymologyEdit
Proper nounEdit
Suomi