Niityistä

Niityistä is a Finnish grammatical form meaning "from the meadows." It is the elative plural of the noun niitty, which means meadow, and it is used to indicate origin or source when referring to something that comes from more than one meadow. The form is formed from the stem niitty- with the elative plural suffix -istä; in standard Finnish the elative plural is spelled niittyistä, though you may encounter the variant niityistä in older or dialectal texts.

Usage of niityistä appears in contexts where something is described as originating from multiple meadows. For example, niittyistä kerätyt kukat tarkoittavat kukkia, jotka on kerätty useista niityistä, and niittyistä on käytetty sana kuvaamaan alkuperää: Se on peräisin niittyistä (It originated from the meadows). The elative plural helps to convey a sense of provenance tied to a landscape or ecosystem encompassing more than one meadow.

In practice, niityistä is common in nature writing, agricultural descriptions, ecological reporting, and poetic imagery when the speaker wishes to emphasize sources or materials drawn from several meadows. The form contrasts with the singular niitystä (from the meadow) and with other cases that express location, possession, or movement relative to a single meadow.

See also: niitty, Finnish grammar, elative case.