Hehkulankaan

Hehkulankaan is the illative form of the Finnish noun hehkulanka, meaning "to the filament" in the context of incandescent lamps. The word illustrates how Finnish forms nouns into case endings to indicate direction or movement.

Etymology: hehkulanka is a compound of hehku ("glow") and lanka ("thread" or "filament"). The illative suffix -an attaches to form hehkulankaan, used to express movement toward or insertion into the filament.

Usage: In Finnish technical language about lighting, hehkulankaan appears when describing actions directed at the filament, such as assembly or adjustment within a lamp. It is part of standard case inflection rather than a separate lexical item.

History and context: The filament is a key element of early incandescent lamps; in Finnish texts, references to the filament are common in discussions of lamp design, material science, and electrical engineering. As an inflected form, hehkulankaan is mostly encountered in technical or educational writing rather than everyday speech.

See also: hehkulanka.