kehältä

Kehältä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun kehä, which means ring, circle, boundary, belt, or track. In Finnish grammar, the elatiivi (from/from the edge) marks origin or starting point, so kehältä means “from the ring” or “from the edge” of something. The term is used in everyday language as well as in technical or geographical contexts to indicate origin from a circular boundary or perimeter.

The word kehä has several senses, including a physical circular shape (a ring or boundary) and, in urban planning, a ring road around a city. In Finland, major ring roads are commonly referred to by the names Kehä I, Kehä II, Kehä III, and so on, with capitalization used for the road network as a proper noun. Kehältä can therefore describe origin or location relative to such rings, for example indicating a point or movement emanating from the edge of a circular area or from a ring road.

Morphology and usage are regular for Finnish elatives of -ä nouns: kehä → kehältä. The form is not a separate lexical item but a grammatical inflection of kehä. While kehältä primarily conveys literal origin from a circular boundary, it can also be used in a figurative sense to denote sources or peripheries in a broader discussion.

See also: kehä, elatiivi, Kehä I, Kehä II.