lauantai
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier *laugantaki (compare dialectal lauvantaki), borrowed from Old Norse laugardagr. Estonian laupäev, Votic laukopäive, Ingrian laukopäivä are from the same origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈlɑu̯.ɑntɑi̯/, [ˈlɑ̝u̯.ɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝i̯]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ɑuɑntɑi
- Syllabification(key): lau‧an‧tai
Noun
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lauantai
- Saturday (day of the week; the sixth day of the week in Finland and in the ISO 8601 standard)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of lauantai (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | lauantai | lauantait | |
genitive | lauantain | lauantaiden lauantaitten | |
partitive | lauantaita | lauantaita | |
illative | lauantaihin | lauantaihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lauantai | lauantait | |
accusative | nom. | lauantai | lauantait |
gen. | lauantain | ||
genitive | lauantain | lauantaiden lauantaitten | |
partitive | lauantaita | lauantaita | |
inessive | lauantaissa | lauantaissa | |
elative | lauantaista | lauantaista | |
illative | lauantaihin | lauantaihin | |
adessive | lauantailla | lauantailla | |
ablative | lauantailta | lauantailta | |
allative | lauantaille | lauantaille | |
essive | lauantaina | lauantaina | |
translative | lauantaiksi | lauantaiksi | |
abessive | lauantaitta | lauantaitta | |
instructive | — | lauantain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Descendants
[edit]- Kven: lauvantai
- → Ingrian: lavvantaki (from dialectal lauvantaki)
See also
[edit]- (abbreviation) la
- (days of the week) viikonpäivä; maanantai, tiistai, keskiviikko, torstai, perjantai, lauantai, sunnuntai (Category: fi:Days of the week)
Further reading
[edit]- “lauantai”, 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 2023-07-02