vakka
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vakka, from a Baltic language, compare Latvian vāks (“lid, cover”), Lithuanian vókas (“cover, eyelid”).
Noun
A man sowing seed from his vakka (coat-of-arms of the municipality of Toivakka).
vakka
- A type of wooden container of varying size, made of bent thin board to make it strong and light, usually equipped with a close fitting cap.
- (by extension) Any roundish, voluminous container equipped with a cap.
- bushel
- pitää kynttiläänsä vakan alla
- to keep one's light under a bushel
- (historical) A unit of dry volume used in Sweden (halvspann in Swedish) and Finland before introduction of metric system. There has been regional and temporal variation, but the 1665 regulation defined it so that it's equal to 36.64 liters, which is quite close to an imperial bushel (36.3687 l).
Declension
| Inflection of vakka (Kotus type 9/kala, kk-k gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vakka | vakat | |
| genitive | vakan | vakkojen | |
| partitive | vakkaa | vakkoja | |
| illative | vakkaan | vakkoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vakka | vakat | |
| accusative | nom. | vakka | vakat |
| gen. | vakan | ||
| genitive | vakan | vakkojen vakkainrare | |
| partitive | vakkaa | vakkoja | |
| inessive | vakassa | vakoissa | |
| elative | vakasta | vakoista | |
| illative | vakkaan | vakkoihin | |
| adessive | vakalla | vakoilla | |
| ablative | vakalta | vakoilta | |
| allative | vakalle | vakoille | |
| essive | vakkana | vakkoina | |
| translative | vakaksi | vakoiksi | |
| instructive | — | vakoin | |
| abessive | vakatta | vakoitta | |
| comitative | — | vakkoineen | |
Derived terms
- Vakka-Suomi
- vakka kantensa valitsee
Ingrian
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