runsas
Finnish
Etymology
Unknown. Relationship to Old High German runsa (“running water, stream”) has been proposed, but this is semantically distant, especially considering the Karelian and Ludic cognates runsas, ruznaz, meaning "sizable".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrunsɑs]
- Hyphenation: run‧sas
Adjective
runsas (comparative runsaampi, superlative runsain)
- abundant
Declension
| Inflection of runsas (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | runsas | runsaat | |
| genitive | runsaan | runsaiden runsaitten | |
| partitive | runsasta | runsaita | |
| illative | runsaaseen | runsaisiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | runsas | runsaat | |
| accusative | nom. | runsas | runsaat |
| gen. | runsaan | ||
| genitive | runsaan | runsaiden runsaitten | |
| partitive | runsasta | runsaita | |
| inessive | runsaassa | runsaissa | |
| elative | runsaasta | runsaista | |
| illative | runsaaseen | runsaisiin runsaihinrare | |
| adessive | runsaalla | runsailla | |
| ablative | runsaalta | runsailta | |
| allative | runsaalle | runsaille | |
| essive | runsaana | runsaina | |
| translative | runsaaksi | runsaiksi | |
| instructive | — | runsain | |
| abessive | runsaatta | runsaitta | |
| comitative | — | runsaineen | |
Derived terms
- runsaasti
- runsaus