kipinä
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Finnish
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Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *kipinä. Related to Ingrian kipuna and Veps kibin, and also to Estonian kibe and Votic kipunõ.
Pronunciation
Noun
kipinä
- spark
- Synonyms: säen, kipuna (dated or dialectal), kyven (dialectal, mainly Eastern Finnish), säde (dialectal, South Ostrobothnia)
- spark (particle of glowing matter; burst of electrical discharge)
- (figuratively) spark (small amount of something, which has the potential to become something greater)
- (colloquial) spark(s), radio operator
- (military slang) tent heater supervision duty
Declension
| Inflection of kipinä (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kipinä | kipinät | |
| genitive | kipinän | kipinöiden kipinöitten | |
| partitive | kipinää | kipinöitä | |
| illative | kipinään | kipinöihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kipinä | kipinät | |
| accusative | nom. | kipinä | kipinät |
| gen. | kipinän | ||
| genitive | kipinän | kipinöiden kipinöitten kipinäin rare | |
| partitive | kipinää | kipinöitä | |
| inessive | kipinässä | kipinöissä | |
| elative | kipinästä | kipinöistä | |
| illative | kipinään | kipinöihin | |
| adessive | kipinällä | kipinöillä | |
| ablative | kipinältä | kipinöiltä | |
| allative | kipinälle | kipinöille | |
| essive | kipinänä | kipinöinä | |
| translative | kipinäksi | kipinöiksi | |
| abessive | kipinättä | kipinöittä | |
| instructive | — | kipinöin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Further reading
- “kipinä”, 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