Kertomaisiin

Kertomaisiin is a Finnish word-form that is not listed as a standard entry in major dictionaries. It may appear in literary or colloquial writing as a coined form built from the root kertom-, relating to telling or stories, together with the derivational suffix -aisiin. Because Finnish allows productive inflection and derivation, such forms can occur in creative texts without changing the underlying sense.

Possible interpretations include:

- A poetic or adjectival meaning, roughly “story-like,” used to describe things or ideas associated with storytelling. In this sense it would function as a descriptive modifier in a phrase.

- A surface form resulting from inflection of a larger phrase, such as a noun phrase involving kertomaisiin muistoihin, where the overall sense is movement toward or into storytelling or narrative content, though this interpretation is highly context-dependent.

In everyday Finnish, standard terms for related concepts would be kertomus (story), kertoa (to tell), kertominen (storytelling), and narratiivinen (narrative).

Usage considerations:

- Because kertomaisiin is not a canonical lexeme, its interpretation depends heavily on context, tone, and authorial intention. It is more likely to be encountered in poetry, literary criticism, or discussions of language play than in formal writing.

See also:

- kertomus

- kertoa

- kertominen

- narratiivisuus

- kertomisperinne

- kerronta