seisoa

seistä +‎ -oa. Cognate with Ingrian seisoa, Karelian seisuo and Ludian seižuda. See seistä for further etymology.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯soɑˣ/,
• Rhymes: -eisoɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): sei‧soa

seisoa

1. (intransitive) to stand (be in a standing position)

   Seiso tässä.

   Stand here.

2. (intransitive) to be still, stand still, be at a halt, stand (remain motionless)

   Tehdas seisoi.

   The factory was at a halt.

3. (intransitive) to lie unused
4. (intransitive) to rest (of dough)

   Synonym: levätä

5. (intransitive) to stand (remain without ruin or injury)
6. (colloquial, impersonal + adessive) to have an erection

   Hänellä seisoi.

   He had an erection.

• seistä is a perfect synonym, and the two are interchangeable. Together with seisoa, the two verbs complete a suppletive paradigm, which can be seen on the entry for seistä. It is more common than the regular paradigm for seisoa (shown in the table below), which however is by no means rare either.
  • seistä has its own forms only in the passive voice, in the imperative and potential moods, as well as its own passive present participle and active and passive past participle forms.

This page will only show the regular forms of seisoa; see the usage notes above.

• seistä (all senses)

• “seisoa”, 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

From Proto-Finnic *saisodak. Cognates include Finnish seisoa.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯soɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯soɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ei̯soː, -ei̯soɑ
• Hyphenation: sei‧so‧a

seisoa

1. Synonym of seissa

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 516
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 75