Pylväistö

Pylväistä is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun pylväs, meaning pillar or column. The elative case expresses origin, source, or basis, so pylväistä roughly means “from the columns” or “out of the columns.” Finnish nouns decline for number and cases; the main plural forms of pylväs are nominative pylväät, partitive pylväitä, and elative pylväistä, while the singular elative form is pylvästä.

In practice, pylväistä appears mainly in architectural, archaeological, or spatial descriptions when referring to material derived from columns or something associated with columns. For example, pylväistä veistetyt kappaleet means "pieces carved from the columns." It can also occur in phrases describing provenance, such as pylväistä peräisin olevat fragmentit, meaning "fragments originating from the columns." The form is a grammatical inflection rather than a separate semantic concept.

Related terms include pylväs (singular), pylväät (nominative plural), and pylväitä (partitive plural). Understanding pylväistä requires basic Finnish noun inflection, particularly the elative plural ending -stä/-stä and how it differs from other plural forms. In most descriptive or technical Finnish text, pylväistä will function to indicate origin, material, or source connected to columns.