Kylvöstä

Kylvöstä is the elative form of the Finnish noun kylvö, which denotes the act of sowing seeds into soil. In agricultural and botanical writing, kylvöstä is used to indicate something that originates from sowing or to refer to the topic of sowing itself. The elative case, marked by the ending -stä, signals origin, source, or context within a sentence.

Common uses include phrases describing outcomes, data, or planning related to sowing. Examples could be kylvöstä saatu sato (the yield resulting from sowing) or kylvöstä laaditut aikataulut (schedules prepared based on sowing). The term is frequent in technical reports, manuals, and farm documentation where sowing is a defined starting point in crop management.

Historically, sowing has been a central agricultural practice in Finland, with diversification from manual to mechanical methods shaping terminology. Today, kylvöstä remains a grammatical vehicle for connecting discourse to sowing, but in informal speech the noun kylvö is more common.