suvanto
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See also: Suvanto
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly syvä + -nto. While this would require a seemingly irregular shift from front into back vowels, the front-vowel variant syväntö is also attested in dialects.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suvanto
- stream pool (stretch of a river or stream in which the water depth is above average and the water velocity is quite below average)
- (figuratively) A slow section in anything that might be understood as a stream, e.g. in musical composition, history, life of a person, project etc.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of suvanto (Kotus type 1*J/valo, nt-nn gradation) | |||
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nominative | suvanto | suvannot | |
genitive | suvannon | suvantojen | |
partitive | suvantoa | suvantoja | |
illative | suvantoon | suvantoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | suvanto | suvannot | |
accusative | nom. | suvanto | suvannot |
gen. | suvannon | ||
genitive | suvannon | suvantojen | |
partitive | suvantoa | suvantoja | |
inessive | suvannossa | suvannoissa | |
elative | suvannosta | suvannoista | |
illative | suvantoon | suvantoihin | |
adessive | suvannolla | suvannoilla | |
ablative | suvannolta | suvannoilta | |
allative | suvannolle | suvannoille | |
essive | suvantona | suvantoina | |
translative | suvannoksi | suvannoiksi | |
abessive | suvannotta | suvannoitta | |
instructive | — | suvannoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
[edit]- (stream pool): väinä (archaic)
- (slow section): suvantovaihe
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
See also
[edit]stream pool on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
[edit]- “suvanto”, 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