Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). Possibly based on a dialectal word kurholainen (“thistle”) (attested in 1850), the etymology of which is obscure.
kurho
| Inflection of kurho (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kurho | kurhot | |
| genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | |
| partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | |
| illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kurho | kurhot | |
| accusative | nom. | kurho | kurhot |
| gen. | kurhon | ||
| genitive | kurhon | kurhojen | |
| partitive | kurhoa | kurhoja | |
| inessive | kurhossa | kurhoissa | |
| elative | kurhosta | kurhoista | |
| illative | kurhoon | kurhoihin | |
| adessive | kurholla | kurhoilla | |
| ablative | kurholta | kurhoilta | |
| allative | kurholle | kurhoille | |
| essive | kurhona | kurhoina | |
| translative | kurhoksi | kurhoiksi | |
| abessive | kurhotta | kurhoitta | |
| instructive | — | kurhoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||