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See also: Pitkin
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Instructive plural of pitkä (“long”). Akin to Karelian pitin, Ingrian pitkin and Estonian piki.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pitkin
Postposition
[edit]pitkin [with partitive]
- along (in a line with, with a progressive motion on)
- along (by the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pitkin”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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
Ingrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Instructive plural of pitkä (“long”). Akin to Finnish pitkin and Estonian piki.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈpitkin/, [ˈpitkĭn]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈpitkin/, [ˈpitkin]
- Rhymes: -itkin
- Hyphenation: pit‧kin
Preposition
[edit]pitkin (+ partitive)
- along
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 43:
- Pitkin patsait vennuu rautalanka hoikka.
- A thin wire stretches along the pylons.
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:
- Orava kantaa ommaa pessää päähkäniä söökiks ja osa siint hävijää pitkin teetä.
- The squirrel carries nuts for food to its own nest and a part of them disappears along the way.
Postposition
[edit]pitkin (+ partitive)
- along
- 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 135:
- Teetä pitkin ajoi traktora.
- The tractor rode along the path.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 411
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- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/itkin
- Rhymes:Finnish/itkin/2 syllables
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish adjective forms
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish postpositions
- Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Ingrian/itkin
- Rhymes:Ingrian/itkin/2 syllables
- Ingrian lemmas
- Ingrian prepositions
- Ingrian terms with quotations
- Ingrian postpositions