Kyllästetyn

Kyllästetyn is the genitive singular form of the Finnish adjective or past participle kyllästetty, which means saturated or impregnated. The verb from which it derives is kyllästää, meaning to saturate, impregnate, or fill something with a substance. In everyday language, kyllästetty describes materials or objects that have been treated so that they have absorbed a chemical or other substance.

In practical usage, kyllästetty commonly appears in contexts related to material treatment, especially wood preservation. The term is frequently found in phrases referring to materials that have been impregnated with preservatives to resist rot, moisture, or pests. A typical example is painekyllästetty puu, or pressure-treated wood, which is wood that has been forced to absorb protective chemicals under pressure. The genitive form kyllästetyn is used to link the descriptor to a noun in phrases like kyllästetyn puun kestävyys (the durability of the treated wood) or kyllästetyn materiaalin ominaisuudet (the properties of the saturated material).

Linguistically, yes, kyllästetyn is one of the common inflection forms of the word: nominative singular would be kyllästetty, genitive singular is kyllästetyn, and partitive singular is kyllästettyä. The form is used whenever the treated material is described as belonging to or associated with something, in contrast to the unmodified form kyllästetty or the base noun.

See also: kyllästetty, kyllästys, painekyllästetty puu.