päällitse
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]päällä (“on top of”) + -itse (“by the way of”)
Pronunciation
[edit]Postposition
[edit]päällitse [with genitive] (uncommon)
- over, above (by the way of going over or above something)
- 1938, The Holy Bible, Acts 27:14:
- Mutta ennen pitkää syöksyi saaren päällitse raju tuuli, niin sanottu koillismyrsky.
- But before very long there rushed down from the land a violent wind, called Euraquilo.
Usage notes
[edit]This word is used rather seldom. As an example, the synonym ylitse gets 300 times as many Google hits.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “päällitse”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja[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