pientalo

pien- (“small”) +‎ talo (“house”); originally zoning terminology, but is now in widespread use.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpie̯nˌtɑlo/,
• Rhymes: -ɑlo
• Hyphenation^(key): pien‧talo

pientalo

1. (broadly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), including detached houses, terraced houses, etc., but not blocks of flats or apartment buildings

   Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”), ketjutalo (“link-detached house, linked house”), rivitalo (“terrace (on a shared lot)”), kaupunkipientalo (“terrace on separate lots”)

   Coordinate term: kerrostalo

2. (strictly) a residential building with ground-level access to each individual house (or apartment), with at most two houses linked together

   Hyponyms: omakotitalo (“detached house”), erillistalo (“structurally detached house but on the same lot as another, or in a condominium”), paritalo (“semi-detached house”)

3. (informal) A small residential building, small house, bungalow.

Tilastokeskus (“Statistics Finland”) adheres to the strict definition above.

• pientalous

• “pientalo”, 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

• peltoina