eritettä
Eritettää is a Finnish verb that denotes the act of causing secretion or excretion—i.e., making a substance be released by a gland or tissue. It is used mainly in biology and medicine. In everyday Finnish, the more common verb for secreting is erittää, with typical forms such as erittää, erittää, erittävät, erittyy, or eritetään. Because eritttää is not widely attested in standard usage, it is usually considered rare, highly technical, or possibly nonstandard in contemporary language.
Related terms include erite (a secretion), eritteet (secretions or excretions), erittyminen (the process of secretion), and
- Eritttää appears mainly in specialized medical or historical texts and is not common in everyday language.
- In modern Finnish, erittää and the passive forms erittyy and eritetään are used to describe secretion
- When referring to a secretion produced by a gland, one typically says that the gland erittää a
- Rauhaset erittävät hormoneja. (Glands secrete hormones.)
- Limakalvo erittää limaa. (The mucous membrane secretes mucus.)
- Aine eritetään ulosteeseen. (The substance is excreted in the feces.)
Eritettää thus functions as a niche variant within the Finnish lexicon, overshadowed in practice by erittää