pesäpallo
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English
Noun
pesäpallo (uncountable)
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
pesä (“nest”) + pallo (“ball”); the initial word was likely also chosen due to sounding somewhat similar to English base.
Pronunciation
Noun
pesäpallo
- (sports) a sport developed in Finland in the 1920s, similar to and largely based on baseball
- the ball used in this game, similar to a baseball
Declension
| Inflection of pesäpallo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pesäpallo | pesäpallot | ||
| genitive | pesäpallon | pesäpallojen | ||
| partitive | pesäpalloa | pesäpalloja | ||
| illative | pesäpalloon | pesäpalloihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | pesäpallo | pesäpallot | ||
| accusative | nom. | pesäpallo | pesäpallot | |
| gen. | pesäpallon | |||
| genitive | pesäpallon | pesäpallojen | ||
| partitive | pesäpalloa | pesäpalloja | ||
| inessive | pesäpallossa | pesäpalloissa | ||
| elative | pesäpallosta | pesäpalloista | ||
| illative | pesäpalloon | pesäpalloihin | ||
| adessive | pesäpallolla | pesäpalloilla | ||
| ablative | pesäpallolta | pesäpalloilta | ||
| allative | pesäpallolle | pesäpalloille | ||
| essive | pesäpallona | pesäpalloina | ||
| translative | pesäpalloksi | pesäpalloiksi | ||
| abessive | pesäpallotta | pesäpalloitta | ||
| instructive | — | pesäpalloin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
Derived terms
compounds
Descendants
- → Swedish: boboll (calque)
Further reading
- “pesäpallo”, 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