paranvoi
Finnish
editEtymology
editparan (“genitive of para, a mythical creature”) + voi (“butter”); the thing was traditionally believed to be an excretion of para that had stolen butter
Pronunciation
editNoun
editparanvoi
- scrambled egg slime mold, flowers of tan, Fuligo septica (plasmodial slime mold of the Myxomycetes class)
Declension
editInflection of paranvoi (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | paranvoi | paranvoit | |
genitive | paranvoin | paranvoiden paranvoitten | |
partitive | paranvoita | paranvoita | |
illative | paranvoihin | paranvoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | paranvoi | paranvoit | |
accusative | nom. | paranvoi | paranvoit |
gen. | paranvoin | ||
genitive | paranvoin | paranvoiden paranvoitten | |
partitive | paranvoita | paranvoita | |
inessive | paranvoissa | paranvoissa | |
elative | paranvoista | paranvoista | |
illative | paranvoihin | paranvoihin | |
adessive | paranvoilla | paranvoilla | |
ablative | paranvoilta | paranvoilta | |
allative | paranvoille | paranvoille | |
essive | paranvoina | paranvoina | |
translative | paranvoiksi | paranvoiksi | |
abessive | paranvoitta | paranvoitta | |
instructive | — | paranvoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “paranvoi”, 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