hoteissa
Finnish
editEtymology
editInessive plural of an uncertain word, which may be either the possibly dialectal hode (“sheepskin”). Alternatively the root may be a borrowing from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old High German huota, whence German Hut (“care, protection”)), or from Russian ходить (xoditʹ), whence Karelian hoteissa (“ongoing”).
Pronunciation
editAdverb
edithoteissa (colloquial)
- in the care (of)
Inflection
edit→○ | illative | hoteisiin |
---|---|---|
○ | inessive | hoteissa |
○→ | elative | hoteista |
Further reading
edit- “hoteissa”, 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 2023-07-02