Peräisinä

Peräisinä is a Finnish term used to indicate origin or source, typically in scholarly, archival, or cataloging contexts. It refers to things that come from a particular time, place, or collection, and is often encountered in descriptions of artifacts, documents, or data sets. In practice, peräisinä helps specify provenance—where something originated or was produced.

Grammar and usage notes:

Peräisinä commonly appears as an inflected form in plural contexts. It is often part of a broader phrase meaning “originating from” or “from the source,” such as in descriptions that attach a time or place (for example, “peräisinä 1800-luvulta” meaning “originating from the 19th century”). In standard Finnish, the exact form may vary with the noun it modifies, and in singular or different syntactic positions other forms (such as peräisin or peräisin oleva) may be more appropriate depending on the sentence structure.

Etymology:

The term stems from the root perä, meaning origin or source, with inflectional components that render a plural, descriptive form. It is related to other provenance-oriented words in Finnish, such as alkuperä (origin) and lähde (source).

Contexts:

Peräisinä appears mainly in contexts dealing with provenance, such as museum catalogs, archival inventories, ethnographic reports, and historiographic writing. It helps readers quickly grasp the temporal or geographic origin of items, statements, or data.

See also:

Perä, alkuperä, lähde, periytyä, provenance.

Note:

As a relatively specialized form, peräisinä is most common in formal Finnish. In everyday language, speakers may use alternative constructions like “peräisin” or “alkuperäinen” depending on the exact meaning and grammatical fit.