Kiehuvasta

Kiehuvasta is the elative singular form of the Finnish present active participle adjective kiehuva, meaning boiling. It is used to describe something in a boiling state when the noun it modifies is in the elative case, reflecting movement away from or origin in that state. In Finnish grammar, adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, so kiehuva becomes kiehuvasta in the elative singular.

In practice, kiehuvasta appears in phrases such as kiehuvasta vedestä, meaning “from the boiling water.” For example: Käsi kastui kiehuvasta vedestä when a hand got wet from the boiling water. The form can also appear in other elative constructions involving different nouns, always conveying the idea of boiling as the source or origin.

Etymology and related forms: kiehuvasta is derived from the verb kiehua, meaning to boil, with the present-participle suffix -va, and the elative case ending -sta. Related forms include kiehuva (nominative singular, “boiling”) and other inflected variants such as kiehuvaa or kiehuvasta, depending on the noun’s case and number. The term is common in everyday Finnish as well as in culinary, scientific, and safety contexts where boiling conditions are described.