Tähkiltä

Tähkiltä is a Finnish word form that functions as the elative plural of the noun tähkä, which means an ear or head of grain, such as those on cereal plants. The elative case expresses origin or source, so tähkiltä translates roughly to “from the ears” or “from the seed heads.” In other words, it denotes something that comes from or is taken from the seed heads.

In ordinary use, tähkiltä appears in agricultural, botanical, or grain-processing contexts. The base plural noun is tähkät, and other inflected forms include tähkien (genitive plural), tähkille (allative), or tähkästä (elative singular). For example, a sentence like siemenet putoavat tähkiltä means “the seeds fall from the seed heads.”

The term is typically not used as a standalone concept outside its grammatical sense; its meaning depends on the surrounding context and the verb or phrase it accompanies. It can be encountered in discussions of harvesting, threshing, or describing parts of cereal plants, such as when discussing how grain is collected or how chaff and seeds separate during processing.

In summary, tähkiltä is a grammatical form indicating origin from grain ears, primarily used in agricultural or botanic language to describe something derived from or occurring on seed heads.