keksiä

From keksi (“pike pole”) +‎ -iä. Originally meant "to prod with a pike pole", whence "to observe" and then "to invent".

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeksiæˣ/,
• Rhymes: -eksiæ
• Hyphenation^(key): kek‧siä

keksiä

1. to invent (to design a new process or mechanism)
2. to make up, concoct, imagine or invent (to create something fictional for a particular purpose)
3. to devise, come up with (to use the intellect to plan or design something)

   Nyt keksin!

   I've got it (a plan)!

4. to give birth (to invent a new idea)

• kekata (colloquial)

• “keksiä”, 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 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeksiæ/,
• Rhymes: -eksiæ
• Hyphenation^(key): kek‧siä

keksiä

1. partitive singular of keksi

• käeksi