kivettyy
Kivettyy is a Finnish verb meaning to become stone-like or to harden, including processes such as ossification and petrification. It describes a transition where a material loses pliability and acquires stone-like properties. The base form is kivettyä; kivettyy is its third-person singular present form. The noun form kivettyminen denotes the process, and kivettynyt refers to something that has already become petrified or rigid.
In biology and medicine, kivettyy is used to describe ossification, the process by which bone tissue forms
In geology and paleontology, kivettyminen (petrification) refers to the mineral replacement of organic material, leading to
In everyday Finnish, kivettyy is used metaphorically to indicate that something has become rigid or inflexible,
Related forms include kivettynyt (past participle, petrified or rigid) and kivettyminen (the noun for the process).