Kaivetuista
Kaivetuista is a Finnish participial adjective form derived from the verb kaivaa, meaning dug up or excavated. It is the inflected form used when referring to multiple items or entities that have been excavated. In practice, kaivetuista functions as a descriptive modifier in phrases such as kaivetuista esineistä or kaivetuista kerrostumista, indicating that the nouns it accompanies originate from excavation.
In use, kaivetuista appears primarily in contexts related to archaeology, paleontology, geology, and related fields, where
- Kaivetuista esineistä laadittiin rekonstruktiomallit. (Reconstruction models were made from the excavated artifacts.)
- Kaivetuista kerrostumista löytyi fossiileja. (Fossils were found in the excavated strata.)
- Tutkimuksessa analysoitiin kaivetuista näytteistä peräisin olevia DNA-merkkia. (DNA markers from the excavated samples were analyzed.)
Etymology and grammar: kaivettu is the past participle of kaivaa, and the suffix -ista is used to
See also: kaivettu, excavated, Finnish participles, archaeology terminology.