mumina
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]mumista (“to mumble, mutter”) + -na (suffix used to produce action nouns out of certain verbs)
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mumina
- mumble, mumbling, mutter, muttering, murmur (low, indistinct sounds of speech)
- 2008, Veikko O. Tähti, Kuoleman portilla, BoD - Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 85:
- Kun ovi oli sulkeutunut junapartion perässä hiljaa tömähtäen, kuului enää vain vanhan rouvan ärtynyt mumina.
- After the door had closed behind the train patrol with a soft thump, only the old lady's irritated mumble was heard.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of mumina (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mumina | muminat | |
| genitive | muminan | muminoiden muminoitten | |
| partitive | muminaa | muminoita | |
| illative | muminaan | muminoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | mumina | muminat | |
| accusative | nom. | mumina | muminat |
| gen. | muminan | ||
| genitive | muminan | muminoiden muminoitten muminain rare | |
| partitive | muminaa | muminoita | |
| inessive | muminassa | muminoissa | |
| elative | muminasta | muminoista | |
| illative | muminaan | muminoihin | |
| adessive | muminalla | muminoilla | |
| ablative | muminalta | muminoilta | |
| allative | muminalle | muminoille | |
| essive | muminana | muminoina | |
| translative | muminaksi | muminoiksi | |
| abessive | muminatta | muminoitta | |
| instructive | — | muminoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Severi Alanne's 1919 Suomalais-Englantilainen Sanakirja / Finnish English Dictionary (mumina is on page 406)
Further reading
[edit]- “mumina”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (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