levä
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Finnish
Etymology
Possibly from the same stem levä- as levällään, originally perhaps referring to any "plant that spreads on water".[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
levä
Declension
| Inflection of levä (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | levä | levät | |
| genitive | levän | levien | |
| partitive | levää | leviä | |
| illative | levään | leviin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | levä | levät | |
| accusative | nom. | levä | levät |
| gen. | levän | ||
| genitive | levän | levien leväin rare | |
| partitive | levää | leviä | |
| inessive | levässä | levissä | |
| elative | levästä | levistä | |
| illative | levään | leviin | |
| adessive | levällä | levillä | |
| ablative | levältä | leviltä | |
| allative | levälle | leville | |
| essive | levänä | levinä | |
| translative | leväksi | leviksi | |
| abessive | levättä | levittä | |
| instructive | — | levin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- (seaweed): merilevä
Derived terms
compounds
References
- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
- ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
Further reading
- “levä”, 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