jäykiltä

jäykiltä is the elative plural form of the Finnish adjective jäykkä, meaning stiff or rigid. In Finnish grammar, the elative case expresses origin or source, and the plural form indicates that the source comes from several subjects described by jäykkä. Therefore jäykiltä translates roughly to "from the stiff ones" or "from the rigid sources" in English. The base adjective is jäykkä; the plural nominative is jäykät, and the elative plural is jäykiltä, while the singular elative is jäykältä. This form is used mainly in written Finnish and in contexts where one discusses the origin of statements, characteristics, or materials attributed to a group of people or things described as stiff or inflexible.

Usage notes:

- jäykiltä is a morphological form, not an adverb. It should not be confused with adverbial forms such as jäykästi, which means “stiffly.”

- The elative plural is employed when referring to multiple sources described by the adjective, for example in investigations, reports, or literary descriptions that attribute origin to several previously described subjects.

Etymology:

- Derived from the stem jäykk-, from jäykkä (stiff, rigid) with the Finnish elative plural suffix -iltä.

See also:

- Finnish grammar

- Elative case

- Finnish adjectives

- Morphology of Finnish

Note:

- jäykiltä is a specialized grammatical form and is more likely to appear in formal, academic, or literary Finnish than in everyday speech.