Pisteeltä

Pisteeltä is the ablative singular form of the Finnish noun piste, which means a point, dot, or mark. In Finnish grammar, pisteeltä conveys origin or starting location and is used to express “from the point.” It appears in mathematical, geometric, navigational, and measurement contexts to indicate where something starts or originates. The form is created by adding the suffix -ltä to the stem piste.

In usage, pisteeltä can denote the source of data, a starting point in space, or a point from which an observation is made. For example, in geometry one might speak of a distance calculated from pisteeltä (0,0) to another coordinate, as in etäisyys pisteeltä (0,0) pisteeseen (a,b). In reporting or research, sentences such as “mittaukset tehtiin pisteeltä A” refer to data collected starting from point A. In navigation or mapping, it can mark the origin of a route or flight path, for instance stating that the route begins pisteeltä (lat, lon).

Pisteeltä is one of several Finnish case forms for piste. Other related forms include pisteellä (on the point), pisteestä (from the point, toward its exterior in some contexts), and pisteeseen (into the point). The choice among these forms depends on the nuance of location being described, as well as the broader syntactic role of the noun in the sentence.