kyykkä
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Finnish
Etymology
Possibly referring to the slightly squatting position a player usually assumes when throwing the bat: see kyykky (“squat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
kyykkä
- "Finnish/Karelian skittles"; a traditional Finnish/Karelian outdoor game resembling skittles, in which the aim is to remove the beer-can-sized wooden skittles from the playing area by throwing a bat (karttu or kyykkämaila) of the size of a baseball bat at them. This game is popular both in the Republic of Finland as well as in the Russian Republic of Karelia.
- A skittle in this game.
Declension
| Inflection of kyykkä (Kotus type 10*A/koira, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kyykkä | kyykät | |
| genitive | kyykän | kyykkien | |
| partitive | kyykkää | kyykkiä | |
| illative | kyykkään | kyykkiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kyykkä | kyykät | |
| accusative | nom. | kyykkä | kyykät |
| gen. | kyykän | ||
| genitive | kyykän | kyykkien kyykkäin rare | |
| partitive | kyykkää | kyykkiä | |
| inessive | kyykässä | kyykissä | |
| elative | kyykästä | kyykistä | |
| illative | kyykkään | kyykkiin | |
| adessive | kyykällä | kyykillä | |
| ablative | kyykältä | kyykiltä | |
| allative | kyykälle | kyykille | |
| essive | kyykkänä | kyykkinä | |
| translative | kyykäksi | kyykiksi | |
| abessive | kyykättä | kyykittä | |
| instructive | — | kyykin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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compounds
See also
Further reading
- “kyykkä”, 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