salmiakki
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish salmiak, ultimately from a confluence of Latin sal armoniacum and Latin sal ammoniacum.
Pronunciation
Noun
salmiakki
- salty licorice, salty liquorice
- Salmiakista ei pidä, ellei siitä opi pitämään.
- You can't like salty licorice without learning to like it.
- (mineralogy, chemistry, archaic) sal ammoniac
- Synonym: ammoniumkloridi
- (colloquial) rhombus (shape)
- Synonyms: salmiakkiruutu, vinoneliö, neljäkäs
Declension
| Inflection of salmiakki (Kotus type 5*A/risti, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | salmiakki | salmiakit | |
| genitive | salmiakin | salmiakkien | |
| partitive | salmiakkia | salmiakkeja | |
| illative | salmiakkiin | salmiakkeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | salmiakki | salmiakit | |
| accusative | nom. | salmiakki | salmiakit |
| gen. | salmiakin | ||
| genitive | salmiakin | salmiakkien | |
| partitive | salmiakkia | salmiakkeja | |
| inessive | salmiakissa | salmiakeissa | |
| elative | salmiakista | salmiakeista | |
| illative | salmiakkiin | salmiakkeihin | |
| adessive | salmiakilla | salmiakeilla | |
| ablative | salmiakilta | salmiakeilta | |
| allative | salmiakille | salmiakeille | |
| essive | salmiakkina | salmiakkeina | |
| translative | salmiakiksi | salmiakeiksi | |
| abessive | salmiakitta | salmiakeitta | |
| instructive | — | salmiakein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
- salmiakkijauhe
- salmiakkijogurtti
- salmiakkijäätelö
- salmiakkikeksi
- salmiakkikondomi
- salmiakkikossu
- salmiakkikuvio
- salmiakkilakritsi
- salmiakkilikööri
- salmiakkimakeinen
- salmiakkimerkkari
- salmiakkipastilli
- salmiakkipurukumi
- salmiakkipussi
- salmiakkiruutu
- salmiakkisima
- salmiakkisipsi
- salmiakkisuklaa
- salmiakkitikkari
- salmiakkitoffee
Further reading
- “salmiakki”, 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