peruna
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Old Swedish pærun (“pear”) (compare dialectal Finnish Swedish pärun, perun and standard Swedish päron). Originally meant “pear”, in which sense it has been attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (16th century). When potatoes were first introduced to Finland in the 18th century, they were usually called maaperuna (compare Swedish jordpäron (“potato”), German Erdbirne (“potato”, literally “earth-pear”)). Peruna is first mentioned in a 1787 dictionary by Christfried Ganander, and was eventually replaced in the sense “pear” by the doublet päärynä (“pear”), which is a more recent borrowing. This left peruna to come to mean “potato” on its own.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peruna
- potato, Solanum tuberosum (plant and the tuber)
- (obsolete) Synonym of päärynä (“pear”)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of peruna (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | peruna | perunat | |
genitive | perunan | perunoiden perunoitten | |
partitive | perunaa | perunoita | |
illative | perunaan | perunoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | peruna | perunat | |
accusative | nom. | peruna | perunat |
gen. | perunan | ||
genitive | perunan | perunoiden perunoitten perunain rare | |
partitive | perunaa | perunoita | |
inessive | perunassa | perunoissa | |
elative | perunasta | perunoista | |
illative | perunaan | perunoihin | |
adessive | perunalla | perunoilla | |
ablative | perunalta | perunoilta | |
allative | perunalle | perunoille | |
essive | perunana | perunoina | |
translative | perunaksi | perunoiksi | |
abessive | perunatta | perunoitta | |
instructive | — | perunoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
- herkkuperuna
- keitinperuna
- kermaperuna
- kokoperunat
- kumiperuna
- kuoriperuna
- lankkuperuna
- lihaperunalaatikko
- liha-perunavuoka
- lohkoperuna
- makkaraperunat
- paistinperuna
- palloperuna
- pannuperuna
- pariisinperunat
- peruna-ankeroinen
- perunahiutale
- perunajauho
- perunakappa
- perunakattila
- perunakeitto
- perunakellari
- perunakuokka
- perunakuoppa
- perunakuoriainen
- perunakuutio
- perunalaari
- perunalaatikko
- perunalajike
- perunalastu
- perunaleivos
- perunalettu
- perunalimppu
- perunalohko
- perunalumi
- perunamaa
- perunamakkara
- perunamuhennos
- perunamuusi
- perunamylly
- perunamämmi
- perunanenä
- perunanhitu
- perunanistutus
- perunanistutuskone
- perunanitu
- perunankukka
- perunankuori
- perunankuorimaveitsi
- perunankuorimisveitsi
- perunankylvö
- perunanlohko
- perunanmukula
- perunannostaja
- perunannosto
- perunannostokone
- perunanpano
- perunansiemen
- perunantaimi
- perunanuija
- perunanvarsi
- perunanviljely
- perunaohukainen
- perunapelto
- perunapenkki
- perunapiirakka
- perunapuuro
- perunarieska
- perunarupi
- perunarutto
- perunarösti
- perunasalaatti
- perunasarka
- perunasato
- perunaskonssi
- perunasoppa
- perunasose
- perunasurvin
- perunasuurimo
- perunasyöpä
- perunasäkki
- perunateatteri
- perunateollisuus
- perunatärkkelys
- perunavako
- perunavalmiste
- perunavesi
- perunaviina
- perunaviipale
- perunaviljelmä
- perunaviljelys
- puikulaperuna
- ranskalaiset perunat
- ranskanperuna
- ranskanperunat
- rehuperuna
- ristikkoperuna
- ruokaperuna
- röstiperunat
- siemenperuna
- silakkaperunat
- sohvaperuna
- tikkuperuna
- tulivuoriperuna
- uuniperuna
- valkosipuliperunat
- varhaisperuna
Further reading
[edit]- “peruna”, 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
Anagrams
[edit]Icelandic
[edit]Noun
[edit]peruna
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Late Old Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Late Old Swedish
- Finnish doublets
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/erunɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/erunɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with obsolete senses
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- fi:Potatoes
- fi:Vegetables
- Icelandic non-lemma forms
- Icelandic noun forms