kivestä

Kivestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun kivi, meaning “from the stone.” The word kivi translates to stone or rock in English. In Finnish grammar, the elative case (suffix -sta/-stä) indicates origin, source, or movement outward from something, and it is commonly used with materials or origins expressed by nouns.

Etymology and related forms: The base noun kivi comes from Proto-Finnic roots and has cognates in other Finnic languages, such as Estonian kiv. The elative suffix -sta/-stä is a productive part of Finnish morphology, used with many nouns to express origin or extraction. Other cases of kivi include kiven (genitive), kiveä or kiven (partitive), and illative/kiven form kiveen, among others.

Usage notes: Kivestä is often used to describe material or construction, indicating that something is made from or derived from stone, or that something comes from a stone. It can also express removal or extraction from a stone in a broader sense. It is distinct from related forms such as kiven (genitive), kiveen (illative), or kivellä (allative).

Examples:

- Talo on rakennettu kivestä. (The house is built from stone.)

- Kivestä veistetty patsas sijaitsee kaupungin torilla. (A sculpture carved from stone is located on the city square.)

See also: kivi (stone), -sta/-stä elative suffix, Finnish case system.

Kivestä thus functions as a specific inflected form used to convey origin, material, or source in Finnish, reflecting both the noun’s meaning and its grammatical role.