Telypäätteestä

Telypäätteestä is a term used in Finnish linguistics to refer to the group of noun-forming suffixes that end in -tely, -ttelu and related variants. These suffixes attach to verb stems to create nouns that denote an act, process, or result of the verb. The form telyä and its related endings are typically discussed in grammar descriptions when analyzing nominalizations formed with the -tely family of suffixes. The expression "telypäätteestä" would be the genitive form meaning "from the -tely suffix" in Finnish.

Formation and phonology: The suffixes are productive in modern Finnish; when attached, they frequently yield nouns with meanings like “presentation” (esittely), “handling” or “processing” (käsittely), or “complaint” (valittelu), among others. Phonological adjustments occur: some stems undergo consonant assimilation or vowel changes, and the resulting forms may appear as -ttelu or -tely depending on the surrounding phonology and the specific verb stem.

Usage: In linguistic writing, -tely nouns are used to discuss processes or acts in a general sense; in dictionaries, the lemmas for these words are defined by the base verb plus the -tely suffix. The term telypäätteestä is encountered mainly in discussions about morphology and in examples illustrating how nominalizing suffixes attach to stems.

See also: Finnish morphology, -tely suffix, -ttelu, nominalization.