muuttoilla

Muuttoilla is a Finnish term that can be understood as "on migrations" or "during migrations." It is formed from the noun muutto (migration, relocation) with the adessive plural suffix -illa, a grammatical ending in Finnish that marks location or temporal context. In practice, muuttoilla is used when discussing migratory events as circumstances or settings.

In linguistic descriptions, muuttoilla denotes that an action or state occurs in the context of migration. In historical and social research, the phrase appears in discussions of patterns of movement within Finland or between Finland and other regions, such as rural-to-urban migration, urbanization, and international emigration. It helps frame analyses around the conditions and environments in which people moved.

In contemporary usage, muuttoilla remains a specialized term, mostly found in academic writing, demographic studies, archival material, or literary works that address migration and change. Its exact meaning depends on sentence structure and context, given Finnish's flexible inflection.

The term illustrates how Finnish uses case endings to encode spatial and temporal relations with a root noun, and it reflects broader themes of mobility that recur in Finnish culture and history. See also migration, Finnish grammar, Finnish migration history, emigration, and urbanization.