paranvoi
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]paran (“genitive of para, a mythical creature”) + voi (“butter”); the thing was traditionally believed to be an excretion of para that had stolen butter
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]paranvoi
- scrambled egg slime mold, flowers of tan, Fuligo septica (plasmodial slime mold of the Myxomycetes class)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of paranvoi (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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