timjami
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Finnish
Etymology
Borrowed from Swedish timjan, from Middle High German thimiān, from Latin thymiama, from Ancient Greek θυμίαμα (thumíama, “incense”); at some point (in Latin or German) semantically influenced by Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon, “thyme”).
Pronunciation
Noun
timjami
- garden thyme, thyme, Thymus vulgaris
- thyme (leaves of this plant used in cooking)
Declension
| Inflection of timjami (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | timjami | timjamit | |
| genitive | timjamin | timjamien timjameiden timjameitten | |
| partitive | timjamia | timjameita timjameja | |
| illative | timjamiin | timjameihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | timjami | timjamit | |
| accusative | nom. | timjami | timjamit |
| gen. | timjamin | ||
| genitive | timjamin | timjamien timjameiden timjameitten | |
| partitive | timjamia | timjameita timjameja | |
| inessive | timjamissa | timjameissa | |
| elative | timjamista | timjameista | |
| illative | timjamiin | timjameihin | |
| adessive | timjamilla | timjameilla | |
| ablative | timjamilta | timjameilta | |
| allative | timjamille | timjameille | |
| essive | timjamina | timjameina | |
| translative | timjamiksi | timjameiksi | |
| abessive | timjamitta | timjameitta | |
| instructive | — | timjamein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
- (Thymus vulgaris): tarha-ajuruoho
Hypernyms
- ajuruoho (“thyme”) (plant of the genus Thymus)
Further reading
- “timjami”, 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