messissä

Finnish

Etymology

Inessive singular of messi-, either from Swedish med (perhaps med sig, sounding like messej in rapid speech),[1] or from Russian вместе (vmeste).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmesːisːæ/, [ˈme̞s̠ːis̠ːæ]
  • Rhymes: -esːisːæ
  • Syllabification(key): mes‧sis‧sä
  • Hyphenation(key): mes‧sis‧sä

Adverb

messissä (slang)

  1. in doing something with someone else, in a group doing something

Inflection

→○ illative messiin
○ inessive messissä
○→ elative –

References

  1. ^ Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN

Further reading

Noun

messissä

  1. inessive singular of messi
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