malluainen
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Finnish
Etymology
Possibly mallo (mallu) (“sack”) (dialectal) + -uainen.[1] Dialectal variants include mallinkainen, mallonkainen, mallunkainen, all mainly found in southwestern Finland, although malluainen also sporadically elsewhere.
Pronunciation
Noun
malluainen
- backswimmer, an insect of the family Notonectidae
Declension
| Inflection of malluainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | malluainen | malluaiset | |
| genitive | malluaisen | malluaisten malluaisien | |
| partitive | malluaista | malluaisia | |
| illative | malluaiseen | malluaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | malluainen | malluaiset | |
| accusative | nom. | malluainen | malluaiset |
| gen. | malluaisen | ||
| genitive | malluaisen | malluaisten malluaisien | |
| partitive | malluaista | malluaisia | |
| inessive | malluaisessa | malluaisissa | |
| elative | malluaisesta | malluaisista | |
| illative | malluaiseen | malluaisiin | |
| adessive | malluaisella | malluaisilla | |
| ablative | malluaiselta | malluaisilta | |
| allative | malluaiselle | malluaisille | |
| essive | malluaisena | malluaisina | |
| translative | malluaiseksi | malluaisiksi | |
| abessive | malluaisetta | malluaisitta | |
| instructive | — | malluaisin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
References
- ^ Lauri Hakulinen (1957) Handbuch der finnischen Sprache, volume 1 (overall work in German)
Further reading
- “malluainen”, 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 2023-07-03