jäistä

jäistä is a Finnish word form that functions as the elative plural of the noun jää, meaning ice. It expresses origin from ice or a substance derived from ice and is used in contexts where the elative case is required. The singular elative is jäästä, while jäistä marks the plural elative. This form reflects Finnish’s system of inflection for case and number, and it commonly appears in descriptive or technical language about icy environments.

In practical use, jäistä tends to occur in natural-science descriptions of ice, frost, glaciers, and related phenomena, as well as in poetry and prose that evoke winter landscapes. Because Finnish relies on suffixal endings rather than prepositions to convey meaning, jäistä is attached to a head noun within a larger noun phrase, with the rest of the phrase maintaining appropriate agreement and case.

Contextual examples include scientific observations about samples or processes that originate from ice, such as glaciology or hydrology discussions, and literary imagery that locates objects or substances in relation to ice. The elative plural form helps specify that the origin or source is multiple or collective rather than singular.

See also: jää (ice), elatiivi (elative case).