lihalla

Lihalla is the adessive singular form of the Finnish noun liha, meaning meat. In Finnish, the adessive case expresses location on the surface of something or a reference location, and lihalla literally translates to “on the meat.” It is one of several spatial cases in the Finnish case system, formed by adding the suffix -lla or -llä to the noun.

In usage, lihalla appears when meat serves as the reference location in a sentence or when describing a location in relation to meat. This form is most common in contexts where the meat itself is the focal reference, such as in culinary descriptions or certain descriptive phrases. In everyday speech, speakers more often convey similar information using the nominative liha with a separate prepositional phrase for location (for example, liha on pöydällä, “the meat is on the table”) rather than relying on the adessive form lihalla.

Etymology and morphology: Lihalla is created from liha plus the suffix -lla, following regular Finnish inflection rules for the adessive case. The root liha comes from the native Finnish word for meat and is used in numerous compound forms and phrases.

See also: Finnish grammar, Adessive case, Cases of Finnish, Liha.