sippi
Finnish
editEtymology
editPerhaps related to dialectal (mennä) sippaan (“(to get) bent, to fail”) and Karelian šivallah (“tilted”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editsippi (comparative sipimpi, superlative sipein)
Declension
editRarely inflected (but see sippiin, sipissä).
Inflection of sippi (Kotus type 5*B/risti, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | sippi | sipit | |
genitive | sipin | sippien | |
partitive | sippiä | sippejä | |
illative | sippiin | sippeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | sippi | sipit | |
accusative | nom. | sippi | sipit |
gen. | sipin | ||
genitive | sipin | sippien | |
partitive | sippiä | sippejä | |
inessive | sipissä | sipeissä | |
elative | sipistä | sipeistä | |
illative | sippiin | sippeihin | |
adessive | sipillä | sipeillä | |
ablative | sipiltä | sipeiltä | |
allative | sipille | sipeille | |
essive | sippinä | sippeinä | |
translative | sipiksi | sipeiksi | |
abessive | sipittä | sipeittä | |
instructive | — | sipein | |
comitative | — | sippeine |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN
Further reading
edit- “sippi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (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