hankikanto
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hankikanto
- snow crust, especially the spring crust (surface of snow in spring when it is strong enough to support objects that would normally sink into it such as a walking person, caused by alternating thawing during the day and freezing during the night)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of hankikanto (Kotus type 1*J/valo, nt-nn gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hankikanto | hankikannot | |
| genitive | hankikannon | hankikantojen | |
| partitive | hankikantoa | hankikantoja | |
| illative | hankikantoon | hankikantoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | hankikanto | hankikannot | |
| accusative | nom. | hankikanto | hankikannot |
| gen. | hankikannon | ||
| genitive | hankikannon | hankikantojen | |
| partitive | hankikantoa | hankikantoja | |
| inessive | hankikannossa | hankikannoissa | |
| elative | hankikannosta | hankikannoista | |
| illative | hankikantoon | hankikantoihin | |
| adessive | hankikannolla | hankikannoilla | |
| ablative | hankikannolta | hankikannoilta | |
| allative | hankikannolle | hankikannoille | |
| essive | hankikantona | hankikantoina | |
| translative | hankikannoksi | hankikannoiksi | |
| abessive | hankikannotta | hankikannoitta | |
| instructive | — | hankikannoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- "snow crust" in Glossary of Meteorology by the American Meteorological Society[1]
Further reading
[edit]- “hankikanto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02