kuukausimansikka
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
kuukausi (“month”) + mansikka (“strawberry”), calque of Swedish månadssmultron, thus called because this plant produces flowers for months instead of a couple of weeks
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈkuːˌkɑu̯siˌmɑnsikːɑ/, [ˈkuːˌkɑ̝u̯s̠iˌmɑ̝ns̠ikːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -ɑnsikːɑ
- Syllabification(key): kuu‧kau‧si‧man‧sik‧ka
Noun edit
kuukausimansikka
- alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca subsp. semperflorens, a cultivar of wild strawberry used chiefly as decorative plant)
Declension edit
Hypernyms edit
- metsämansikka (“wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca”)
References edit
Further reading edit
- “kuukausimansikka”, 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