rillit
Finnish
Etymology
< Swedish brillor (“spectacles”) < brilla, a lens made of beryll (“beryl”), sometimes used as visual aid before glass lenses were available.
Noun
rillit
- (colloquial, plural only) glasses, eyeglasses, spectacles
- (plural only) Zosteropidae (family of birds, commonly called white-eyes in English)
- Nominative plural form of rilli. (bird of that family)
Declension
| Inflection of rillit (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | rillit | |
| genitive | — | rillien | |
| partitive | — | rillejä | |
| illative | — | rilleihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | — | rillit | |
| accusative | nom. | — | rillit |
| gen. | — | ||
| genitive | — | rillien | |
| partitive | — | rillejä | |
| inessive | — | rilleissä | |
| elative | — | rilleistä | |
| illative | — | rilleihin | |
| adessive | — | rilleillä | |
| ablative | — | rilleiltä | |
| allative | — | rilleille | |
| essive | — | rilleinä | |
| translative | — | rilleiksi | |
| instructive | — | rillein | |
| abessive | — | rilleittä | |
| comitative | — | rilleineen | |
Synonyms
- kakkulat, klasit (informal)
- silmälasit
Derived terms
Derived terms
- John Lennon -rillit
- rilli
- rillipää
- rillisika
Anagrams
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