Probably from dialectal tainio (“wire fish-trap”), which is an old Germanic borrowing from Proto-Germanic *tainijǭ.[1]
Tainio
Inflection of Tainio (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Tainio | Tainiot | |
genitive | Tainion | Tainioiden Tainioitten | |
partitive | Tainiota | Tainioita | |
illative | Tainioon | Tainioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Tainio | Tainiot | |
accusative | nom. | Tainio | Tainiot |
gen. | Tainion | ||
genitive | Tainion | Tainioiden Tainioitten | |
partitive | Tainiota | Tainioita | |
inessive | Tainiossa | Tainioissa | |
elative | Tainiosta | Tainioista | |
illative | Tainioon | Tainioihin | |
adessive | Tainiolla | Tainioilla | |
ablative | Tainiolta | Tainioilta | |
allative | Tainiolle | Tainioille | |
essive | Tainiona | Tainioina | |
translative | Tainioksi | Tainioiksi | |
abessive | Tainiotta | Tainioitta | |
instructive | — | Tainioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |