pika-

See also: pika, Pika, píka, and píkǎ

Finnish

From Proto-Finnic *pika (compare Estonian pea, Karelian pika, Livonian pigā, Veps piga, Votic pigaa), possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic *fikaz (compare Danish fige, Swedish fika (“to strive (for)”)).

pika-

The cases of pika- serve in Finnish only as adverbs. The partitive singular is used only in the adverbial expression pikapikaa and tuota pikaa.

Declension of pika-

noun case	singular	plural	adverbial form	singular	plural
nominative	pika-	–	superessive	–	–
genitive	–	–	delative	–	–
partitive	pikaa	–	sublative	–	–
accusative	–	–	lative	–	–
inessive	–	–	temporal	piakkoin	–
elative	–	–	causative	–	–
illative	–	–	multiplicative	–	–
adessive	–	–	distributive	–	–
ablative	–	–	temp. dist.	–	–
allative	–	–	prolative	–	–
essive	pikana	–	situative	–	–
translative	–	–	oppositive	–	–
abessive	–	–
instructive	pian	–
comitative	–	–

Finnish terms prefixed with pika-

adverbs

nouns

compounds

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