puolinen

puoli (“half, side”) >

puolinen

1. (archaic) lunch (meal eaten at about midday)

• lounas

puolinen (comparative puolisempi, superlative puolisin)

1. Of location; being on a defined side of something, or closer to something; no exact English equivalent.

   Joen puolinen talo on minun.

   The house closer to the river is mine.

   Ruotsissa oli ennen vasemmanpuolinen liikenne.

   Sweden used to have left-hand traffic.

2. -sided, -faceted

   Tuo on hyvin yksipuolinen näkemys.

   That's a very one-sided opinion.

• This word is always used with an attribute which defines the direction. Some common combinations are usually written as compound terms.
• In the sense "-sided, -faceted" there are only compound terms.
• The comparative is seldom used in location sense, except in the compound terms. Instead, the comparative tends to be formed with the parallel term puoleinen.

• puoleinen