Idästä

Idästä is a nonstandard spelling of the Finnish elative form itästä, which means “from the east.” In standard Finnish, the noun itä meaning “east” takes the elative suffix -stä, giving itästä to express origin or movement away from the east. The variant idästä typically appears only when diacritics are omitted (for example in plain ASCII text) or as a typographical error; it is not recognized as a separate word in modern Finnish dictionaries.

Usage in Finnish follows the same grammatical role as itästä. It denotes provenance or direction from the east, and is used in phrases such as itästä päin (“from the east”) or in descriptions of winds, routes, or origins that come from the eastern side. When writing formally or accurately, itästä should be used; idästä is regarded as a misspelling or faulty rendering rather than a distinct form.

Orthography and conventions: Finnish orthography distinguishes ä from a, and diacritics are important for correct meaning. As a result, itästä is the correct form, while idästä is generally corrected to itästä in published text. The use of idästä may occur in historical manuscripts, older digital records with limited character support, or informal writing, but it does not constitute a separate lexical entry or concept.

See also: Itä (east), Itämeri (Baltic Sea).