leseistä
Leseistä is a Finnish inflected form that would arise from the noun lese, a loanword of limited use in standard Finnish. The suffix -istä marks the elative plural, indicating origin or source, so leseistä would be interpreted as “from the readings” or “from the editions.” Because lese is not a common term in everyday Finnish, leseistä is primarily encountered in linguistic discussions or in demonstrations of how Finnish forms borrowed nouns and applies case endings.
In practice, leseistä is not a widely attested word in contemporary Finnish dictionaries. When scholars discuss
Etymologically, the base lese is commonly linked to the German Lese, meaning “reading” or “the text to
See also: Finnish loanwords, Finnish morphology, elative case, inflection.