liikenopeussanan

liikenopeussanan is the genitive singular form of the Finnish compound noun liikenopeussana, which can be translated as "traffic-speed word" or "term for traffic speed." In Finnish, the base compound combines liikenopeus (traffic speed) and sana (word). The form liikenopeussanan is used to indicate possession or association with the word, roughly meaning "the traffic-speed word's" in English.

The term is primarily a linguistic construct rather than a common everyday word. It appears in discussions of Finnish morphology, compounding, and lexicography, where attention is given to how compounds are formed and how their inflected forms function. In practice, liikenopeussanan may appear in dictionary entries or academic examples, such as liikenopeussanan määritelmä, which translates to "the definition of the traffic-speed word."

Formation and usage notes: Finnish compound nouns often allow the final noun to govern possessive or genitive forms, producing expressions like liikenopeussanan that convey a relationship between the traffic-speed concept and its corresponding word. The example illustrates how compounding and declension interact in Finnish to produce precise, context-dependent phrases.

See also: Finnish language, Finnish grammar, compound nouns, genitive case, lexicography.