Peräisinillä

Peräisinillä is a term encountered in some Finnish scholarly texts dealing with provenance and origin. It is not a standard dictionary entry; rather it appears as a specialized form used to indicate that something comes from particular sources or origins. The base adjective peräisin means "originating from" or "derived from." The form peräisinillä is formed by combining this adjective with a locative suffix, a pattern seen in some archaic or dialectal Finnish constructions to signal "on/at the origins of" or "from the origins of" a set of items or sources.

Because this usage is not common in everyday Finnish, it may appear only in historical, ethnographic, or archaeology-related writing and can come across as formal or antiquated. When researchers intend to discuss provenance, more standard phrasing is used, such as peräisin jostakin or peräisin olevat esineet, depending on grammatical context. In most cases, writers will avoid peräisinillä unless the emphasis on multiple origins or a specific locative nuance is required. The term thus serves as a niche linguistic form rather than a broadly recognized concept.

See also: Etymology, Provenance, Finnish grammar.