merestä

Merestä is the elative singular form of the Finnish noun meri, meaning the sea. The elative case marks origin or movement away from a source, so merestä translates roughly as “from the sea” or “out of the sea.” It is commonly used to indicate that something originates in or has been retrieved from the sea, and it can modify a following noun or appear with verbs of extraction.

Usage examples illustrate its function. Sukeltajat toivat merestä simpukoita. (Divers brought shells from the sea.) Muinaisjäännös löytyi merestä. (An ancient artifact was found from the sea.) Pullo merestä nousi rantaan. (A bottle from the sea washed ashore.)

Notes on the system: merestä contrasts with meressä (in the sea) and meren (the sea’s), illustrating Finnish case endings. The word is widely used in nautical, historical, and ecological writing to denote origin, material that comes from the sea, or phenomena associated with the sea.

Etymology: merestä is formed from meri (sea) plus the elative suffix -stä, following standard Finnish inflection patterns for the elative case. See also meri, meret, and other elative forms such asvedestä (from water).