hirssi
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish hirs, from German Hirse.
Pronunciation
Noun
hirssi
- millet (any of a group of various grasses whose grains are used as food, widely cultivated in the developing world)
- millet (the grains of these grasses)
- panicgrass (grass of the genus Panicum, some of which are used as millet)
- proso millet, common millet, Panicum miliaceum (the most widely cultivated variant of millet)
Declension
| Inflection of hirssi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hirssi | hirssit | |
| genitive | hirssin | hirssien | |
| partitive | hirssiä | hirssejä | |
| illative | hirssiin | hirsseihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hirssi | hirssit | |
| accusative | nom. | hirssi | hirssit |
| gen. | hirssin | ||
| genitive | hirssin | hirssien | |
| partitive | hirssiä | hirssejä | |
| inessive | hirssissä | hirsseissä | |
| elative | hirssistä | hirsseistä | |
| illative | hirssiin | hirsseihin | |
| adessive | hirssillä | hirsseillä | |
| ablative | hirssiltä | hirsseiltä | |
| allative | hirssille | hirsseille | |
| essive | hirssinä | hirsseinä | |
| translative | hirssiksi | hirsseiksi | |
| abessive | hirssittä | hirsseittä | |
| instructive | — | hirssein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- (Panicum miliaceum): viljahirssi
Hyponyms
- (millet):
- viljahirssi, Panicum miliaceum
- helmisulkahirssi, helmihirssi, purppurasulkahirssi, untuvaheinä, neekerinhirssi, Pennisetum glaucum
- tähkähirssi, italianpantaheinä, koristehirssi, Setaria italica
- afrikansormihirssi, Eleusine coracana
- tefheinä, tefhirssi, Eragrostis tef
- japaninhirssi, Echinochloa esculenta, Echinochloa utilis
- jobinkyynelheinä, Coix lacryma-jobi
- fonio; refers to two species, Digitaria exilis and Digitaria iburua
- pikkuhirssi, Panicum sumatrense
- (Panicum):
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Further reading
- “hirssi”, 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