liiteosalta

Liiteosalta is a Finnish term formed by combining liiteosa (appendix, attachment) with the elative suffix -alta, yielding "from the appendix." It is used in formal and legal writing to refer to material that is contained in the attachments of a document rather than in the main text. As a grammatical construction, it signals the source or location of information within the document set, thereby guiding the reader to examine the appended materials for details, data, or supplementary explanations.

In practice, liiteosalta appears in official reports, contracts, and administrative correspondence. It helps writers avoid repeating lengthy data in the main body by pointing readers to the corresponding appendix. Because it is a specialized form of Finnish, it is more familiar to professionals dealing with legal, governmental, or academic documents and may be obscure to casual readers. When clarity is needed, writers often opt for simpler alternatives, such as referring to "liitteet" (the attachments) or using "liitteiden mukaan" (according to the attachments) or naming a specific appendix (e.g., Liite A). The term thus reflects Finnish compounding and the way formal writing encodes the location of information within a document.