hiidenkirnu
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Finnish
Etymology
hiiden (“devil's”) + kirnu (“churn”)
Pronunciation
Noun
hiidenkirnu
- (geology) pothole, glacial pothole, giant's kettle, giant kettle (pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream)
Usage notes
Of the various English terms meaning hiidenkirnu, pothole appears to be the most common in current usage. glacial pothole is sometimes used to make a difference between large potholes dating back to the Ice Age and mere fluvial potholes. Giant kettle was used in 1913 Webster's. Other terms include moulin pothole (Encyclopedia Britannica), giant's kettle and giant's cauldron. The two last ones seem to appear mostly in Scandinavian texts and may be influenced by the local language terms.
Declension
| Inflection of hiidenkirnu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hiidenkirnu | hiidenkirnut | |
| genitive | hiidenkirnun | hiidenkirnujen | |
| partitive | hiidenkirnua | hiidenkirnuja | |
| illative | hiidenkirnuun | hiidenkirnuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hiidenkirnu | hiidenkirnut | |
| accusative | nom. | hiidenkirnu | hiidenkirnut |
| gen. | hiidenkirnun | ||
| genitive | hiidenkirnun | hiidenkirnujen | |
| partitive | hiidenkirnua | hiidenkirnuja | |
| inessive | hiidenkirnussa | hiidenkirnuissa | |
| elative | hiidenkirnusta | hiidenkirnuista | |
| illative | hiidenkirnuun | hiidenkirnuihin | |
| adessive | hiidenkirnulla | hiidenkirnuilla | |
| ablative | hiidenkirnulta | hiidenkirnuilta | |
| allative | hiidenkirnulle | hiidenkirnuille | |
| essive | hiidenkirnuna | hiidenkirnuina | |
| translative | hiidenkirnuksi | hiidenkirnuiksi | |
| abessive | hiidenkirnutta | hiidenkirnuitta | |
| instructive | — | hiidenkirnuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
- “hiidenkirnu”, 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