leppä
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *leppä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ (“linden tree”). Cognate with Estonian lepp, Ludian lepp, Veps lep, Erzya лепе (lepe) and Moksha лепе (lepe). The euphemistic sense "blood" comes from the fact that the wood of the alder tree turns red when cut.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈle̞pːæ]
- Rhymes: -epːæ
- Syllabification(key): lep‧pä
Noun
leppä
- An alder, any of the trees in the genus Alnus.
- A grey alder (harmaaleppä by its full Finnish name), Alnus incana.
- (archaic, euphemistic) blood
Declension
| Inflection of leppä (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp-p gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | leppä | lepät | |
| genitive | lepän | leppien | |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä | |
| illative | leppään | leppiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | leppä | lepät | |
| accusative | nom. | leppä | lepät |
| gen. | lepän | ||
| genitive | lepän | leppien leppäinrare | |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä | |
| inessive | lepässä | lepissä | |
| elative | lepästä | lepistä | |
| illative | leppään | leppiin | |
| adessive | lepällä | lepillä | |
| ablative | lepältä | lepiltä | |
| allative | lepälle | lepille | |
| essive | leppänä | leppinä | |
| translative | lepäksi | lepiksi | |
| instructive | — | lepin | |
| abessive | lepättä | lepittä | |
| comitative | — | leppineen | |
| Possessive forms of leppä (type koira) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | leppäni | leppämme |
| 2nd person | leppäsi | leppänne |
| 3rd person | leppänsä | |
Derived terms
Ingrian
Leppä.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈlʲe̞pː]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈlepːæ/, [ˈle̞pːæ]
- Rhymes: -epːæ
- Hyphenation: lep‧pä
Noun
leppä
- alder
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28:
- Lepäl ono lehti.
- The alder has a leaf.
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Declension
| Declension of leppä (type 3/koira, pp-p gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | leppä | lepät |
| genitive | lepän | leppiin |
| partitive | leppää | leppiä |
| illative | leppää | leppii |
| inessive | lepäs | lepis |
| elative | lepäst | lepist |
| allative | lepälle | lepille |
| adessive | lepäl | lepil |
| ablative | lepält | lepilt |
| translative | lepäks | lepiks |
| essive | leppännä, leppään | leppinnä, leppiin |
| exessive1) | leppänt | leppint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
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