pelti
Finnish
Etymology
Akin to Swedish späld, späll, dialectal variants of Swedish spjäll (“damper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpelti/, [ˈpe̞lt̪i]
- Hyphenation: pel‧ti
Noun
pelti
- sheet metal
- plate (flat, flexible, metallic object of uniform thickness)
- sheet (flat metal pan used for baking in oven)
- damper (valve or movable plate in the flue duct of a stove, furnace, etc., used to regulate the draught of air)
Usage notes
- (plate):: A metal plate thicker than a few millimeters is better called levy. If necessary, the material of the plate can be specified by adding a modifier, e.g. teräslevy (“steel plate”).
Declension
| Inflection of pelti (Kotus type 5/risti, lt-ll gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | pelti | pellit | |
| genitive | pellin | peltien | |
| partitive | peltiä | peltejä | |
| illative | peltiin | pelteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | pelti | pellit | |
| accusative | nom. | pelti | pellit |
| gen. | pellin | ||
| genitive | pellin | peltien | |
| partitive | peltiä | peltejä | |
| inessive | pellissä | pelleissä | |
| elative | pellistä | pelleistä | |
| illative | peltiin | pelteihin | |
| adessive | pellillä | pelleillä | |
| ablative | pelliltä | pelleiltä | |
| allative | pellille | pelleille | |
| essive | peltinä | pelteinä | |
| translative | pelliksi | pelleiksi | |
| instructive | — | pellein | |
| abessive | pellittä | pelleittä | |
| comitative | — | pelteineen | |
Derived terms
- pellittää
Compounds
- aaltopelti
- helmapelti
- komppipelti
- konepelti
- läkkipelti
- paistopelti
- peltikolari
- peltikorjaamo
- peltikorva
- peltipoliisi
- pullapelti
- uunipelti
Anagrams
- pelit