henkinen

henki (“spirit, person”) +‎ -inen. Sense "mental, spiritual" coined by Finnish physician and translator Wolmar Schildt in 1843.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheŋkinen/,
• Rhymes: -eŋkinen
• Hyphenation^(key): hen‧ki‧nen

henkinen (comparative henkisempi, superlative henkisin)

1. mental (of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process)

   henkinen ikä ― mental age

2. spiritual (of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind)
3. (in compounds) -person (consisting of a given number of people)

   seitsenhenkinen ryhmä ― seven-person team

• hengellinen

• “henkinen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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