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See also: Kurppa
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic. Originally the term was not as precise and was used of different species.[1] May also be related to kurmitsa, which could be from the same root.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kurppa
- snipe (any bird of the genus Gallinago, belonging to the family Scolopacidae)
- snipe, woodcock (birds in the related genera Scolopax, Coenocorypha and Lymnocryptes, belonging to the family Scolopacidae)
- (taxonomy, in the plural) Scolopacidae (the family of sandpipers and snipes)
- (taxonomy, in the plural) Gallinago (genus of snipes within the family Scolopacidae)
Usage notes
[edit]- Interestingly, the only Gallinago species endemic to Finland is not called kurppa, but taivaanvuohi.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kurppa (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp-p gradation) | |||
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nominative | kurppa | kurpat | |
genitive | kurpan | kurppien | |
partitive | kurppaa | kurppia | |
illative | kurppaan | kurppiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kurppa | kurpat | |
accusative | nom. | kurppa | kurpat |
gen. | kurpan | ||
genitive | kurpan | kurppien kurppain rare | |
partitive | kurppaa | kurppia | |
inessive | kurpassa | kurpissa | |
elative | kurpasta | kurpista | |
illative | kurppaan | kurppiin | |
adessive | kurpalla | kurpilla | |
ablative | kurpalta | kurpilta | |
allative | kurpalle | kurpille | |
essive | kurppana | kurppina | |
translative | kurpaksi | kurpiksi | |
abessive | kurpatta | kurpitta | |
instructive | — | kurpin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Hyponyms
[edit]birds of the genus Gallinago:
- afrikankurppa, Gallinago nigripennis (African snipe)
- amerikantaivaanvuohi, Gallinago delicata (Wilson’s snipe)
- andienkurppa, Gallinago jamesoni (Jameson’s snipe)
- eteläamerikankurppa, Gallinago paraguaiae (South American snipe)
- heinäkurppa, Gallinago media (great snipe)
- himalajankurppa, Gallinago nemoricola (wood snipe)
- inkakurppa, Gallinago imperialis (imperial snipe)
- isokurppa, Gallinago undulata (giant snipe)
- japaninkurppa, Gallinago hardwickii (Latham’s snipe)
- keltajalkakurppa, Gallinago andina (Puna snipe)
- madagaskarinkurppa, Gallinago macrodactyla (Madagascan snipe)
- rusokurppa, Gallinago magellanica (Magellan snipe)
- siperiankurppa, Gallinago megala (Swinhoe’s snipe)
- suippopyrstökurppa, Gallinago stenura (pintail snipe)
- taivaanvuohi Gallinago gallinago (common snipe)
- tulimaankurppa, Gallinago stricklandi (Cordilleran snipe)
- vuorikurppa, Gallinago solitaria (solitary snipe)
- ylänkökurppa, Gallinago nobilis (noble snipe)
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Related terms
[edit]birds in other genera:
- chathamintöpökurppa, Coenocorypha pusilla (Chatham snipe)
- jänkäkurppa, Lymnocryptes minimus (jack snipe)
- töpökurppa, Coenocorypha aucklandica (New Zealand snipe)
- riukiunkurppa, Scolopax mira (Amami woodcock)
- sundankurppa, Scolopax saturata (Javan woodcock)
- uudenguineankurppa, Scolopax rosenbergii (New Guinea woodcock)
- filippiinienkurppa, Scolopax bukidnonensis (Bukidnon woodcock)
- celebesinkurppa, Scolopax celebensis (Sulawesi woodcock)
- molukkienkurppa, Scolopax rochussenii (Moluccan woodcock)
- lehtokurppa
References
[edit]- ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013) Suomalaisen linnunnimistön etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Finnish Bird Names] (Turun yliopiston suomen kielen ja suomalais-ugrilaisen kielentutkimuksen oppiaineen julkaisuja 4) (in Finnish), Turku: University of Turku, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- “kurppa”, 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 2023-07-02