hissi
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Catalan
Verb
hissi
- inflection of hissar:
Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish hiss, ultimately from Middle Low German hissen of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
hissi
- elevator, lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)
- älä käytä hissiä tulipalon sattuessa ― do not use the elevator/lift in case of fire
- (idiomatic) elevator as metaphor for mental capabilities, as in the English expression "one's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top"
- Luulen, että hänellä ei mene hissi ylös asti.
- I think that his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top.
Declension
| Inflection of hissi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hissi | hissit | ||
| genitive | hissin | hissien | ||
| partitive | hissiä | hissejä | ||
| illative | hissiin | hisseihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | hissi | hissit | ||
| accusative | nom. | hissi | hissit | |
| gen. | hissin | |||
| genitive | hissin | hissien | ||
| partitive | hissiä | hissejä | ||
| inessive | hississä | hisseissä | ||
| elative | hissistä | hisseistä | ||
| illative | hissiin | hisseihin | ||
| adessive | hissillä | hisseillä | ||
| ablative | hissiltä | hisseiltä | ||
| allative | hissille | hisseille | ||
| essive | hissinä | hisseinä | ||
| translative | hissiksi | hisseiksi | ||
| abessive | hissittä | hisseittä | ||
| instructive | — | hissein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Derived terms
compounds
- ankkurihissi
- gondolihissi
- hammastankohissi
- henkilöhissi
- herrahissi
- hiihtohissi
- hissiaukko
- hissikoneisto
- hissikori
- hissikortti
- hissikuilu
- hissilippu
- hissimusiikki
- hissinkuljettaja
- hissipuhe
- hissiteollisuus
- hissityttö
- hissivalaisin
- huoltohissi
- invalidihissi
- kalahissi
- kapulahissi
- kiskohissi
- maisemahissi
- näköalahissi
- paternosterhissi
- pelastushissi
- pikahissi
- porrashissi
- rinnehissi
- sompahissi
- tavarahissi
- tiilihissi
- tuolihissi
- vinohissi
Further reading
- “hissi”, 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
Koasati
Noun
hissi
Uzbek
Etymology
From Arabic حِسِّيّ (ḥissiyy).