levyiltä

Levyiltä is the elative plural form of the Finnish noun levy. In Finnish, levy can refer to a flat object such as a metal plate or a disc like a vinyl record, and levyille/levyiltä are forms that indicate origin or source. Levyltä means “from the plate/record,” and levyiltä expands this to “from the plates/records” or “from the discs.” The elative case is commonly used to express where something comes from or is derived.

In practice, levyiltä is used in contexts involving physical media, archives, or other flat surfaces. For example, vanhoilta levyiltä on löytynyt monia harvinaisia kappaleita (“many rare tracks have been found from old records”). Kokoelma on koottu levyiltä, joita on digitoitu (“the collection has been assembled from records that have been digitized”). Beyond music media, the form can appear with other meanings of levy, such as plates or flat materials, to indicate extraction or origin from those items.

Levyiltä is a grammatical form and not a standalone concept; its meaning depends on the sense of levy in the surrounding context. It is related to other inflected forms of levy, such as levyltä (singular elative) or levyille (plural allative), and it contrasts with forms indicating destination or location rather than origin.

See also: levy, levyn, levyille, levyiltä (disambiguation of the word levy).