palpakko
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Finnish
Etymology
Coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot for Flora Fennica (1860). palpa + -kko, where the initial part is re-extracted from palpaheinä (“cattail”) (attested in Suomalaisia kasvu-nimejä (1850) by Henrik August Reinholm; + heinä (“grass, hay”)).[1] The root could be akin to Karelian palʹpakko (“dwarf, stunted person”), palʹpukkaine (“small ball, flower bud”), possibly of sound-symbolic origin (compare pulpukka).
Pronunciation
Noun
palpakko
- bur-reed (plant of the genus Sparganium)
Declension
| Inflection of palpakko (Kotus type 4*A/laatikko, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | palpakko | palpakot | |
| genitive | palpakon | palpakkojen palpakoiden palpakoitten | |
| partitive | palpakkoa | palpakkoja palpakoita | |
| illative | palpakkoon | palpakkoihin palpakoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | palpakko | palpakot | |
| accusative | nom. | palpakko | palpakot |
| gen. | palpakon | ||
| genitive | palpakon | palpakkojen palpakoiden palpakoitten | |
| partitive | palpakkoa | palpakkoja palpakoita | |
| inessive | palpakossa | palpakoissa | |
| elative | palpakosta | palpakoista | |
| illative | palpakkoon | palpakkoihin palpakoihin | |
| adessive | palpakolla | palpakoilla | |
| ablative | palpakolta | palpakoilta | |
| allative | palpakolle | palpakoille | |
| essive | palpakkona | palpakkoina | |
| translative | palpakoksi | palpakoiksi | |
| abessive | palpakotta | palpakoitta | |
| instructive | — | palpakoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
References
Further reading
- “palpakko”, 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