kuningatar
Finnish
editEtymology
editkuningas (“king”) + -tar (“-ess”). Coined by Finnish explorer, historian and author Carl Axel Gottlund in 1828. The cooking sense originally from kuningatarhillo, making it a semantic loan from Swedish drottning (from drottningsylt)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkuningatar
- queen (female monarch, or wife of a king)
- (figurative) queen (something or someone outstanding or supreme among its kind)
- Matematiikka on tieteiden kuningatar.
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
- queen (reproductive female animal in a hive)
- (chess) queen
- (card games) queen
- (figurative) queen (something or someone outstanding or supreme among its kind)
- (cooking, compounds) A flavour made of raspberries and bilberries; similar to English summer berries.
- kuningatarhillo ― bilberry-raspberry jam
- kuningatarhyytelö ― bilberry-raspberry jelly
- kuningatartorttu ― bilberry-raspberry tart
- kuningatarjogurtti ― bilberry-raspberry flavoured yoghurt
Declension
editInflection of kuningatar (Kotus type 32*C/sisar, tt-t gradation) | |||
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nominative | kuningatar | kuningattaret | |
genitive | kuningattaren | kuningattarien kuningatarten | |
partitive | kuningatarta | kuningattaria | |
illative | kuningattareen | kuningattariin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kuningatar | kuningattaret | |
accusative | nom. | kuningatar | kuningattaret |
gen. | kuningattaren | ||
genitive | kuningattaren | kuningattarien kuningatarten | |
partitive | kuningatarta | kuningattaria | |
inessive | kuningattaressa | kuningattarissa | |
elative | kuningattaresta | kuningattarista | |
illative | kuningattareen | kuningattariin | |
adessive | kuningattarella | kuningattarilla | |
ablative | kuningattarelta | kuningattarilta | |
allative | kuningattarelle | kuningattarille | |
essive | kuningattarena | kuningattarina | |
translative | kuningattareksi | kuningattariksi | |
abessive | kuningattaretta | kuningattaritta | |
instructive | — | kuningattarin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
edit- (female monarch or wife of a king): naiskuningas (archaic), kuninkaanna (archaic), drotninki (obsolete, literary)
Derived terms
editcompounds
- drag-kuningatar
- herttakuningatar
- kauneuskuningatar
- keijukaiskuningatar
- kuningatarhillo
- kuningatarhyytelö
- kuningatarkenno
- kuningatarlähetti
- kuningatarmehiläinen
- kuningatarsotilas
- kuningatarsäppikala
- kuningatartorttu
- kuningatartoukka
- kuningataräiti
- kurvikuningatar
- lapsikuningatar
- leskikuningatar
- Lumikuningatar
- lyöjäkuningatar
- mehiläiskuningatar
- muurahaiskuningatar
- patakuningatar
- povikuningatar
- ravikuningatar
- ristikuningatar
- ruutukuningatar
- yönkuningatar
- äänikuningatar
See also
editChess pieces in Finnish · šakkinappula, shakkinappula (layout · text) | |||||
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kuningas | kuningatar | torni | lähetti | ratsu | sotilas |
Further reading
edit- “kuningatar”, 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
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