muotista

Muotista is the elative case form of the Finnish noun muoti, which means "fashion" or "style." Morphologically it is formed by adding the elative suffix -sta/-stä to the base muoti, yielding muotista and generally translating to "from fashion" or "out of fashion" in English. The elative case in Finnish marks movement out of something, source, separation or origin, and muotista is used accordingly in contexts that express coming from, being removed from, or caused by fashion.

In usage, muotista contrasts with other case forms of muoti: muoti (nominative), muodin (genitive), muotia (partitive) and muodissa (inessive, "in fashion"). For example, muodissa is the common expression for "in fashion," while muotista appears when indicating that something is no longer fashionable or originates from fashion-related trends. As a derived form it appears mainly in descriptive and idiomatic phrases and is less frequent than the inessive muodissa.

Etymology of muoti traces to Swedish moda and further to French mode and Latin modus, reflecting the borrowings common in Finnic vocabulary for cultural concepts. The form muotista illustrates Finnish case inflection and how grammatical cases encode spatial and metaphorical relationships such as movement away from a state or source.