Siipimäisellä

Siipimäisellä is a Finnish word-form that serves as the adessive singular of the adjective siipimäinen, meaning wing-like or resembling a wing. It is used to describe a noun in the adessive case or to form adverbial phrases indicating manner, such as siipimäisellä tavalla.

In use, siipimäisellä describes physical shape or motion that resembles a wing. It is commonly employed in descriptive writing about animals, objects with curved, wingspan-like features, or architectural elements that suggest a winged form. As a grammatical form, it accompanies a noun in the adessive case or appears in fixed expressions like siipimäisellä tavalla, meaning in a wing-like manner, or siipimäisellä muodolla, meaning in a wing-like shape.

Etymologically, siipimäisellä derives from siipi, meaning wing, combined with the suffix -mäinen, which yields wing-like or resembling, and the adessive singular ending -llä/-llä, used when the modified noun is in the adessive case. The base adjective siipimäinen is more common in attributive position, while siipimäisellä is its declined form for adessive usage.

See also: siipimäinen, Finnish adjective inflection, Finnish case endings, descriptive language in Finnish.

Notes: Siipimäisellä is a specialized grammatical form rather than a widely used independent term. It appears primarily in descriptive prose and grammatically in contexts where the modified noun is in the adessive case or where an adverbial sense of manner is intended. It is part of standard Finnish morphology and does not constitute a separate lexical entry beyond its role in inflected adjective forms.