Kiemurtelevia

Kiemurtelevia is a Finnish adjective form meaning winding or meandering. It is used to describe physical features such as roads, rivers, coastlines, or landscapes that do not follow a straight course. The term can also be employed metaphorically in literary or descriptive prose to characterize non-linear or intricate sequences of events.

In Finnish grammar, kiemurtelevia is the partitive plural form of the adjective kiemurtelevä. This form agrees with plural nouns in the partitive case, for example kiemurtelevia teitä (winding roads) or kiemurtelevia jokia (meandering rivers). The root kiemur- comes from kiemurtaa, meaning to coil or twist, with the participial suffix -tele-/ -teva that yields the sense of “having the quality of winding.”

Usage notes and context: kiemurtelevia is most common in descriptive writing about geography or scenery, where it conveys a vivid sense of curvature and fluid motion. It also appears in travel writing, journalism, and nature descriptions. In literary contexts, the word can contribute to a tone of exploration or suspense by emphasizing complexity and nonlinearity.

Related terms include kiemurtelevä, the base form meaning “winding” in masculine/feminine singular, and kiemurteleva, a related participial form. The concept is part of standard Finnish descriptive vocabulary and does not denote a distinct cultural or scientific term beyond its descriptive function.