pöyhkeä

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Finnish

Etymology

A variant of pöyheä. The sense "haughty" is probably through the development "fluffy" → "appearing large" (like of birds fluffing up their feathers) → "that makes oneself appear large" → "haughty".

Pronunciation

Adjective

pöyhkeä (comparative pöyhkeämpi, superlative pöyhkein)

  1. haughty, uppity, snooty

Declension

Inflection of pöyhkeä (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)
nominative pöyhkeä pöyhkeät
genitive pöyhkeän pöyhkeiden
pöyhkeitten
partitive pöyhkeää
pöyhkeätä
pöyhkeitä
illative pöyhkeään pöyhkeisiin
pöyhkeihin
singular plural
nominative pöyhkeä pöyhkeät
accusative nom. pöyhkeä pöyhkeät
gen. pöyhkeän
genitive pöyhkeän pöyhkeiden
pöyhkeitten
pöyhkeäin rare
partitive pöyhkeää
pöyhkeätä
pöyhkeitä
inessive pöyhkeässä pöyhkeissä
elative pöyhkeästä pöyhkeistä
illative pöyhkeään pöyhkeisiin
pöyhkeihin
adessive pöyhkeällä pöyhkeillä
ablative pöyhkeältä pöyhkeiltä
allative pöyhkeälle pöyhkeille
essive pöyhkeänä pöyhkeinä
translative pöyhkeäksi pöyhkeiksi
abessive pöyhkeättä pöyhkeittä
instructive pöyhkein
comitative pöyhkeine
Possessive forms of pöyhkeä (Kotus type 15/korkea, no gradation)
Rare. Only used with substantive adjectives.

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