Monirtaisella

Monirtaisella is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective moniraitainen, meaning “multistriped” or “having many stripes.” It is the adessive singular form used to describe a surface, object, or pattern in a context where the surface is the location or carrier of the described multistriped quality. In practice, monirtaisella appears in phrases such as “moniraitaisella pinnalla” or “moniraitaisella kuviolla,” where the adjective agrees with the noun in case and number.

In standard Finnish, the commonly used adessive form of moniraitainen is moniraitaisella. The form monirtaisella is generally considered nonstandard or dialectal and may be encountered as a misspelling or in less formal contexts. The word itself is built from moni- (many) and raita (stripe) with the typical -ainen adjective suffix, and the adessive suffix -(i)sella attaches to the adjective stem to indicate location on a surface.

Usage and context: moniraitainen descriptions are common in textile, design, and heraldic or decorative contexts, especially when describing patterns on fabrics, wallpapers, or painted surfaces. The standard form moniraitaisella is favored in formal writing, catalogs, and technical descriptions. For example, “Kankaalla on moniraitaisella kuvio” would more correctly be phrased as “Kankaalla on moniraitaisella kuviolla,” indicating the multistriped pattern on the fabric’s surface. Another example is “seinät on maalattu moniraitaisella kuviolla,” meaning the walls are painted with a multistriped pattern.

Etymology comes from moni- “many” and raita “stripe,” combined with the -inen suffix to form the adjective, and with -isella the adessive form for location.