leppä
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Leppä.
See also: Leppä
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *leppä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ (“linden tree”). Cognate with Estonian lepp, Ludian lepp, Veps lep, Erzya and Moksha лепе (ľepe). The euphemistic sense "blood" comes from the fact that the wood of the alder tree turns red when cut.
Pronunciation
Noun
leppä
- alder (any of the trees in the genus Alnus)
- grey alder (Alnus incana)
- Synonym: harmaaleppä
- (archaic, euphemistic) blood
Declension
| Inflection of leppä (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp-p gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | leppä | lepät | |
| genitive | lepän | leppien | |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä | |
| illative | leppään | leppiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | leppä | lepät | |
| accusative | nom. | leppä | lepät |
| gen. | lepän | ||
| genitive | lepän | leppien leppäin rare | |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä | |
| inessive | lepässä | lepissä | |
| elative | lepästä | lepistä | |
| illative | leppään | leppiin | |
| adessive | lepällä | lepillä | |
| ablative | lepältä | lepiltä | |
| allative | lepälle | lepille | |
| essive | leppänä | leppinä | |
| translative | lepäksi | lepiksi | |
| abessive | lepättä | lepittä | |
| instructive | — | lepin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
- harmaaleppä
- Leppiaho
- Leppihalme
- Leppikangas
- Leppiniemi
- Leppäaho
- leppähalko
- Leppäjärvi
- Leppäkangas
- leppäkeihäs
- leppäkerttu
- Leppäkorpi
- leppäkorpiseitikki
- Leppäkoski
- Leppälahti
- leppälintu
- Leppämäki
- Leppäniemi
- leppäpensas
- leppäpirkko
- leppärousku
- leppäsieni
- Leppävaara
- Leppävirta
- Leppävuori
- lepänkuori
- lepänkäpy
- lepänlehti
- lepänurpu
- pensasleppä
- punaleppä
- tervaleppä
Further reading
- “leppä”, 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
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *leppä. Cognates include Finnish leppä and Estonian lepp.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/,
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/,
- Rhymes: -epː, -epːæ
- Hyphenation: lep‧pä
Noun
leppä
- alder
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:
- Lepäl ono lehti.
- The alder has a leaf.
Declension
| Declension of leppä (type 3/koira, pp-p gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | leppä | lepät |
| genitive | lepän | leppiin |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä |
| illative | leppää | leppii |
| inessive | lepäs | lepis |
| elative | lepäst | lepist |
| allative | lepälle | lepille |
| adessive | lepäl | lepil |
| ablative | lepält | lepilt |
| translative | lepäks | lepiks |
| essive | leppännä, leppään | leppinnä, leppiin |
| exessive1) | leppänt | leppint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
Derived terms
- (diminutive) leppäin