Borrowed from Old Swedish frē(i)adagher, frīadagher, from Proto-West Germanic *Frījā dag.
Since Finnish historically lacks f and initial consonant clusters (such as fr), the word was adapted to fit the language's phonological rules. These changes can be imagined as *freja => *pereja => *perja (On the first step, F turns to P, and an epenthetic vowel appears to avoid the cluster . Then, on the second step, the unstressed vowel is dropped). For the -antai ending, compare maanantai (“Monday”) and sunnuntai (“Sunday”).
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perjantai
Inflection of perjantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | perjantai | perjantait | |
genitive | perjantain | perjantaiden perjantaitten | |
partitive | perjantaita | perjantaita | |
illative | perjantaihin | perjantaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | perjantai | perjantait | |
accusative | nom. | perjantai | perjantait |
gen. | perjantain | ||
genitive | perjantain | perjantaiden perjantaitten | |
partitive | perjantaita | perjantaita | |
inessive | perjantaissa | perjantaissa | |
elative | perjantaista | perjantaista | |
illative | perjantaihin | perjantaihin | |
adessive | perjantailla | perjantailla | |
ablative | perjantailta | perjantailta | |
allative | perjantaille | perjantaille | |
essive | perjantaina | perjantaina | |
translative | perjantaiksi | perjantaiksi | |
abessive | perjantaitta | perjantaitta | |
instructive | — | perjantain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |