insesti
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Finnish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin, a calque of English incest.
Pronunciation
Noun
insesti
- incest (sexual intercourse between near relatives)
Declension
| Inflection of insesti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | insesti | insestit | |
| genitive | insestin | insestien | |
| partitive | insestiä | insestejä | |
| illative | insestiin | insesteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | insesti | insestit | |
| accusative | nom. | insesti | insestit |
| gen. | insestin | ||
| genitive | insestin | insestien | |
| partitive | insestiä | insestejä | |
| inessive | insestissä | insesteissä | |
| elative | insestistä | insesteistä | |
| illative | insestiin | insesteihin | |
| adessive | insestillä | insesteillä | |
| ablative | insestiltä | insesteiltä | |
| allative | insestille | insesteille | |
| essive | insestinä | insesteinä | |
| translative | insestiksi | insesteiksi | |
| abessive | insestittä | insesteittä | |
| instructive | — | insestein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- sukupuoliyhteys lähisukulaisten kesken (legal term)
- sukurutsaus, sukurutsa (older terms, getting rare)
Further reading
- “insesti”, 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