digitaaliselta

Digitaaliselta is a Finnish grammatical form rather than a standalone concept. It is the ablative singular form of the adjective digitaalis-, derived from digitaalinen, meaning digital. It is used to express origin or source with a noun in the ablative case, for example in the phrase digitaaliselta alalta, meaning from the digital field.

In practice, digitaaliselta functions similarly to English “from the digital” and appears in phrases describing data, environments, sectors, or actions that originate in digital contexts. It is not a fixed lexical item by itself; its meaning depends on the noun it modifies. For instance, digitaaliselta alalta peräisin oleva tieto means information originating from the digital field, and digitaaliselta sektorilta kerätty data means data collected from the digital sector.

From a linguistic perspective, digitaaliselta is formed by taking the stem digitaalis- from the base digitaalisinen (digital) and adding the ablative suffix -lta. The overall function is to indicate source in combination with a noun in the ablative case. In everyday Finnish, speakers may prefer simpler expressions such as digitaalinen or phrases that specify the exact domain, but digitaaliselta appears in formal, technical, or policy-related writing to denote origin within digital contexts.