Endingsistä

Endingsistä is a Finnish term formed as the elative plural of the English loanword endings, meaning “from endings.” In linguistic and grammatical discussions, it is used to refer to the suffixes or word endings that carry grammatical information such as case, number, tense, or mood. The form illustrates how Finnish borrows and then inflects foreign terms according to its own morphology.

In general, endings are a central part of morphology in many languages. Finnish, in particular, relies heavily on suffixes to express grammatical relationships, and most inflection occurs through endings attached to a word stem. The elative plural ending -istä is applied to plural or borrowed stems to indicate “from” or “out of” in discussions about form, origin, or source of the endings themselves. The concept of endings encompasses a wide range of suffixes that label grammatical categories rather than standalone words.

Usage of endingsistä appears mainly in analytical or descriptive writing about language structure. It can be used when referring to data, rules, or patterns derived from the forms at the ends of words. For example, endingsistä voidaan päätellä sanojen taivutussääntöjä (From the endings, one can infer the inflection rules of the words). Another example might discuss data collected from endingsistä in a corpus study to identify common suffix patterns.

The term highlights the broader topic of how word forms encode meaning through endings, a fundamental aspect of Finnish grammar and comparative linguistics.