Runsailla

Runsailla is a Finnish verb meaning to abound or to overdo something by making it abundant, often with a sense of lavishness or excess. The form is built from the adjective runsas, meaning ample or abundant, together with the verbal suffix -lla, which yields a verb sense of causing or producing abundance. The word is relatively uncommon in everyday speech and tends to appear in literary, humorous, or evaluative contexts.

Usage and meaning provide a rough sense of excess rather than a precise action. Runsailla can describe situations where attention, praise, resources, or other quantities are exaggerated or equipped in excess. Because of its nuanced, rhetorical flavour, it is more likely to be found in stylized writing than in ordinary conversation, and it can carry a mildly critical or playful tone depending on context. The verb can take objects indicating what is being made abundant, often in abstract or intangible senses, though it can also describe tangible abundance.

Grammatical notes: as a Finnish verb, runsailla follows standard Finnish conjugation patterns for verbs with the -lla suffix, with forms adapting to subject and tense as with other Finnish verbs. The exact tense and mood are determined by the standard inflection rules of Finnish.

In English, runsaila is commonly translated as “to abound,” “to overflow,” “to lavish,” or “to overdo,” depending on context. It is typically encountered in dictionaries or linguistic discussions of Finnish stylistic devices rather than in everyday usage.

See also: runsas, runsasti, abundance in Finnish language and style.