Originally meant "salted herring". Probably borrowed from Swedish sillake, from sill (“herring”) + lake (“brine”) (compare saltlake), referring to the brine herrings were salted with. The word may have influenced by salakka, another word for a fish, in both form and meaning.
silakka
Inflection of silakka (Kotus type 14*A/solakka, kk-k gradation) | ||||
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nominative | silakka | silakat | ||
genitive | silakan | silakoiden silakoitten silakkojen | ||
partitive | silakkaa | silakoita silakkoja | ||
illative | silakkaan | silakoihin silakkoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | silakka | silakat | ||
accusative | nom. | silakka | silakat | |
gen. | silakan | |||
genitive | silakan | silakoiden silakoitten silakkojen silakkainrare | ||
partitive | silakkaa | silakoita silakkoja | ||
inessive | silakassa | silakoissa | ||
elative | silakasta | silakoista | ||
illative | silakkaan | silakoihin silakkoihin | ||
adessive | silakalla | silakoilla | ||
ablative | silakalta | silakoilta | ||
allative | silakalle | silakoille | ||
essive | silakkana | silakkoina | ||
translative | silakaksi | silakoiksi | ||
abessive | silakatta | silakoitta | ||
instructive | — | silakoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Related to Finnish silakka and Estonian silk.
silakka
Declension of silakka (type 3/kana, kk-k gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | silakka | silakat |
genitive | silakan | silakkoin |
partitive | silakkaa | silakkoja |
illative | silakkaa | silakkoihe |
inessive | silakaas | silakois |
elative | silakast | silakoist |
allative | silakalle | silakoille |
adessive | silakaal | silakoil |
ablative | silakalt | silakoilt |
translative | silakaks | silakoiks |
essive | silakkanna, silakkaan | silakkoinna, silakkoin |
exessive1) | silakkant | silakkoint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |