yhtymä

yhtyä +‎ -mä

• IPA^(key): /ˈyhtymæ/, [ˈyçt̪ymæ]
• Rhymes: -yhtymæ
• Syllabification^(key): yh‧ty‧mä
• Hyphenation^(key): yh‧ty‧mä

yhtymä

1. consortium, (business) group, combine (association or combination of businesses)
2. group, grouping, consortium (association or combination of non-commercial institutions or organizations)
3. (taxation) ellipsis of verotusyhtymä (“(tax) partnership”)
4. combination, conjunction (that which has combined or conjoined)

As a term for a business, yhtymä is somewhat vacuous. On one hand, the term is sometimes defined as a relatively loose group of companies which share a common parent for certain activities, but which are otherwise relatively independent. However, many companies that have yhtymä in their name often tend to be consortia, or sometimes even single entities (often because they have kept their name even after consolidation).

• “yhtymä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• hymytä, hymyät