mäti
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mati"
Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic *mätei, without exact Finnic cognates; related to dialectal määhnä, Karelian mähnä and Livvi mähändy, all from Proto-Finnic *mädähnä. If the original meaning was "soft", possibly related to *mätä (“rotten”).
Noun
mäti
- roe (of fish)
Declension
| Inflection of mäti (Kotus type 5*F/risti, t-d gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mäti | mädit | |
| genitive | mädin | mätien | |
| partitive | mätiä | mätejä | |
| illative | mätiin | mäteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mäti | mädit | |
| accusative | nom. | mäti | mädit |
| gen. | mädin | ||
| genitive | mädin | mätien | |
| partitive | mätiä | mätejä | |
| inessive | mädissä | mädeissä | |
| elative | mädistä | mädeistä | |
| illative | mätiin | mäteihin | |
| adessive | mädillä | mädeillä | |
| ablative | mädiltä | mädeiltä | |
| allative | mädille | mädeille | |
| essive | mätinä | mäteinä | |
| translative | mädiksi | mädeiksi | |
| abessive | mädittä | mädeittä | |
| instructive | — | mädein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
See also
Further reading
- “mäti”, 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 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
Verb
mäti