nisä
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "nisa"
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nisä, possibly from Proto-Uralic *ńimśä. Related to Estonian nisa, Veps ńiža and Votic nisä.
Pronunciation
Noun
nisä
- (anatomy, zoology) mamma (milk secreting organ of mammals, including the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; technically for humans a breast, but mostly used of animals)
- Meronym: nänni
Declension
| Inflection of nisä (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | nisä | nisät | |
| genitive | nisän | nisien | |
| partitive | nisää | nisiä | |
| illative | nisään | nisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | nisä | nisät | |
| accusative | nom. | nisä | nisät |
| gen. | nisän | ||
| genitive | nisän | nisien nisäin rare | |
| partitive | nisää | nisiä | |
| inessive | nisässä | nisissä | |
| elative | nisästä | nisistä | |
| illative | nisään | nisiin | |
| adessive | nisällä | nisillä | |
| ablative | nisältä | nisiltä | |
| allative | nisälle | nisille | |
| essive | nisänä | nisinä | |
| translative | nisäksi | nisiksi | |
| abessive | nisättä | nisittä | |
| instructive | — | nisin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “nisä”, 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