rosvopaisti
Finnish
Etymology
Compound of rosvo (“robber”) + paisti (“roast”), "robber's roast"; the word broke into common vocabulary and the dish was made popular by Veikko Huovinen's book Lampaansyöjät of 1970, in which the main characters stole sheep and prepared them for food in heated earth pits.
Noun
rosvopaisti
- A hunk of meat, preferably a leg of lamb, prepared for food in an earth oven .
Declension
| Inflection of rosvopaisti (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit | |
| genitive | rosvopaistin | rosvopaistien | |
| partitive | rosvopaistia | rosvopaisteja | |
| illative | rosvopaistiin | rosvopaisteihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit | |
| accusative | nom. | rosvopaisti | rosvopaistit |
| gen. | rosvopaistin | ||
| genitive | rosvopaistin | rosvopaistien | |
| partitive | rosvopaistia | rosvopaisteja | |
| inessive | rosvopaistissa | rosvopaisteissa | |
| elative | rosvopaistista | rosvopaisteista | |
| illative | rosvopaistiin | rosvopaisteihin | |
| adessive | rosvopaistilla | rosvopaisteilla | |
| ablative | rosvopaistilta | rosvopaisteilta | |
| allative | rosvopaistille | rosvopaisteille | |
| essive | rosvopaistina | rosvopaisteina | |
| translative | rosvopaistiksi | rosvopaisteiksi | |
| instructive | — | rosvopaistein | |
| abessive | rosvopaistitta | rosvopaisteitta | |
| comitative | — | rosvopaisteineen | |