Kerroksilta

Kerroksilta is the elative plural form of kerros, a Finnish noun meaning floor or level in a building. In English, it translates roughly as “from the floors.” The form kerroksilta expresses origin or movement away from multiple floors and is used when describing things that come from or originate on more than one level.

In usage, kerroksilta appears in contexts involving spatial origin, such as accidents, construction, or descriptive prose. It is commonly found in reports, safety notes, and urban or architectural descriptions. Typical phrases include expressions like kerroksilta pudonneet esineet (objects that fell from the floors) or äänet kerroksilta (sounds from the floors). The elative plural is a standard grammatical tool for indicating source or provenance from several floors.

Pronunciation is approximately ke-rroks-il-ta, with the stress on the first syllable, following Finnish stress patterns. The word is formed by combining kerros with the elative plural suffix -ilta/-iltä.

Etymologically, kerroksilta derives from kerros (floor) plus the elative suffix -ilta, used to indicate origin from a source. Related forms include kerros (singular), kerrosta (partitive), kerroksen (genitive), and kerroksia (partitive plural), as well as the elative singular kerrokselta for “from the floor.” See also related terms such as kerros, elatiivi (elative case), and other case forms of kerros.

Note: kerroksilta is primarily a grammatical and descriptive term rather than a fixed proper noun or place name. Its relevance is mainly in Finnish language usage and linguistic description.