Puukoteloisten

Puukoteloisten is a Finnish word form derived from puukotelo, a noun meaning knife sheath. It is an inflected form used in sentences to indicate a relationship to knife sheaths—such as possession, association, or description—rather than a standalone concept. The base puukotelo itself is a compound, combining puukko (knife) and kotelo (sheath). The form illustrates Finnish nominal inflection and how suffixes encode grammatical relationships within noun phrases.

In practice, puukoteloisten appears mainly in written Finnish, including grammars, dictionaries, and historical or technical texts that discuss inflected noun forms or describe items related to knife sheaths. It is not typically a common form in everyday spoken language, where speakers would often choose more straightforward constructions to express possession or relation.

The term can be used to demonstrate how Finnish morphologically marks relationships between objects and their descriptors or owners through inflection. As with many Finnish inflected forms, the exact syntactic role of puukoteloisten depends on the surrounding phrase and the case it represents.

See also: Finnish grammar; noun inflection; puukko.