Kivikkoisissa

Kivikkoisissa is a Finnish inessive plural form used to describe locations or conditions that are rocky or stony in character. It is formed from the stem related to kivikko, meaning rocky ground or stony terrain, combined with the adjective suffix -inen, and takes the plural inessive ending -is-sissa. In practice, the form appears in phrases such as kivikkoisissa maastoissa (in rocky terrains) or kivikkoisissa oloissa (in rocky conditions).

In usage, kivikkoisissa functions as a descriptive modifier of a following noun in the inessive case. It is common in geographic descriptions, travel writing, and landscape descriptions, where authors want to convey rough, uneven, or gravelly ground. The term helps convey how terrain influences activities, construction, transport, or outdoor recreation. It is a generic descriptive expression and not a proper place name.

Kivikkoisissa should not be confused with the place name Kivikko, which is a district in Helsinki. The latter is a toponym, whereas kivikkoisissa is an ordinary descriptive form built from kivikko meaning rocky ground. The two share a semantic root related to rockiness, but they serve different linguistic purposes: one identifies a specific location, the other characterizes terrain or conditions.

See also

Kivikko, Helsinki.