Louhimalla

Louhimalla is a Finnish adverbial participle formed from the verb louhia, which means "to quarry" or "to blast rock." The form louhimalla is commonly translated as "by quarrying" or "through quarrying" and denotes the means or method by which an action is carried out.

Grammatically, louhimalla belongs to a class of Finnish verbal forms created with the suffix -malla/-mällä, which expresses manner or means ("by doing X"). It is used in sentences to indicate that the action of the main verb was achieved by performing the activity described by the participle. For example, in descriptive or procedural contexts it can introduce the method used in construction, excavation, or landscape modification.

Beyond its strictly grammatical role, louhimalla appears in technical descriptions, historical accounts of quarrying and mining, and colloquial speech when explaining how something was obtained or created. It may also occur in compound expressions, place descriptions, or names that reference quarrying activity, though such proper-noun usages are contingent on local naming practices.

As a language element, louhimalla exemplifies Finnish agglutinative morphology and the language’s capacity to express complex procedural relationships succinctly. Its interpretation depends on context, tense, and the aspectual nuances provided by surrounding verbs and particles.