Raunioista

Raunioista is a Finnish grammatical form meaning “from the ruins.” It is the elative plural form of the noun raunio, which refers to ruins or the remains of a building or site. In everyday and scholarly Finnish, raunioista is used to indicate origin or movement away from ruins, and it appears frequently in descriptions of archaeological finds, historical locations, and literary passages.

Grammatically, raunio is a noun for a ruin, and -sta/-stä is the suffix that marks the elative case, used to express “out of” or “from.” When applied to the plural form, raunioista yields the sense of “from the ruins” or “out of the ruins.” This form is common in texts that discuss excavation results, ruin sites, or relics recovered from ruined areas, such as esineitä raunioista (objects from the ruins) or jäännöksiä raunioista löytyneinä (relics found from the ruins).

Usage and context are primarily historical, archaeological, and descriptive. Raunioista often appears in sentences that situate actions, discoveries, or observations in relation to ruins. While the core meaning is spatial, the phrase can also convey historical distance or origin, depending on the verb and surrounding grammar. It is not a separate concept but a grammatical inflection used with the noun raunio.

See also: raunio (ruin), jäännös (relic), archaeology.