puutiainen
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Finnish
Etymology
Derived from the same root as punkki, probably puu, as puu + -iainen. Has an irregular -t-, which could be explained as influence from puutäi, puuntäi.
Pronunciation
Noun
puutiainen
- hard tick (any tick of the family Ixodidae)
- castor bean tick, pasture tick, sheep tick, Ixodes ricinus (species of hard tick acting as vector for Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis)
Declension
| Inflection of puutiainen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | puutiainen | puutiaiset | |
| genitive | puutiaisen | puutiaisten puutiaisien | |
| partitive | puutiaista | puutiaisia | |
| illative | puutiaiseen | puutiaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | puutiainen | puutiaiset | |
| accusative | nom. | puutiainen | puutiaiset |
| gen. | puutiaisen | ||
| genitive | puutiaisen | puutiaisten puutiaisien | |
| partitive | puutiaista | puutiaisia | |
| inessive | puutiaisessa | puutiaisissa | |
| elative | puutiaisesta | puutiaisista | |
| illative | puutiaiseen | puutiaisiin | |
| adessive | puutiaisella | puutiaisilla | |
| ablative | puutiaiselta | puutiaisilta | |
| allative | puutiaiselle | puutiaisille | |
| essive | puutiaisena | puutiaisina | |
| translative | puutiaiseksi | puutiaisiksi | |
| abessive | puutiaisetta | puutiaisitta | |
| instructive | — | puutiaisin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- punkki (colloquial)
Hypernyms
Derived terms
compounds
Further reading
- “puutiainen”, 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