jääminä
Jääminä is a Finnish neologism formed from jää, meaning ice, and minä, meaning I or self. The literal translation is "ice self," and the term is used as a metaphor in Finnish-language poetry, prose, and online discourse to describe a person who is emotionally distant, self-contained, or preserved in isolation, much like something preserved in ice. The expression can also appear in discussions of Arctic environments, climate change, or cryonics, though such uses are not standardized.
In practice, jääminä is not an established term with a fixed definition in dictionaries. It tends to
As a lexical item, jääminä illustrates how Finnish commonly forms new terms by combining concrete nouns with