tulikettu
Finnish
FWOTD – 24 January 2017
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuliˌketːu/, [ˈt̪uliˌke̞t̪ːu]
- Rhymes: -etːu
- Syllabification(key): tu‧li‧ket‧tu
Noun
tulikettu
- The firefox, a mythical creature in Finnish folklore, a fox with fiery or radiant fur, the reflection of which produces the northern lights.
- 1952, Veikko Huovinen, Havukka-ahon ajattelija, WSOY, published 1974, →ISBN, page 20:
- – Etpä taija tietääkään, Nikke, että tuolla lammen vastaisella rinteellä on tuliketun pesä.
- - I bet you don't know, Nikke, that on that hillside across the pond there's a lair of a firefox.
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Declension
| Inflection of tulikettu (Kotus type 1*C/valo, tt-t gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | tulikettu | tuliketut | |
| genitive | tuliketun | tulikettujen | |
| partitive | tulikettua | tulikettuja | |
| illative | tulikettuun | tulikettuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tulikettu | tuliketut | |
| accusative | nom. | tulikettu | tuliketut |
| gen. | tuliketun | ||
| genitive | tuliketun | tulikettujen | |
| partitive | tulikettua | tulikettuja | |
| inessive | tuliketussa | tuliketuissa | |
| elative | tuliketusta | tuliketuista | |
| illative | tulikettuun | tulikettuihin | |
| adessive | tuliketulla | tuliketuilla | |
| ablative | tuliketulta | tuliketuilta | |
| allative | tuliketulle | tuliketuille | |
| essive | tulikettuna | tulikettuina | |
| translative | tuliketuksi | tuliketuiksi | |
| instructive | — | tuliketuin | |
| abessive | tuliketutta | tuliketuitta | |
| comitative | — | tulikettuineen | |
| Possessive forms of tulikettu (type valo) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | tulikettuni | tulikettumme |
| 2nd person | tulikettusi | tulikettunne |
| 3rd person | tulikettunsa | |
See also
- revontulet (“northern lights”, literally “fox's fires”)
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