paksummilla

Paksummilla is a Finnish grammatical form used to express relative thickness in plural contexts. It represents the adessive plural form of the comparative adjective paksumpi, meaning thicker, and is used when describing something that is thicker compared to other items, often in reference to multiple objects or parts.

Morphology and usage: The base adjective paksu (thick) forms the comparative paksumpi (thicker). To indicate location or association with plural nouns, Finnish adds the adessive plural suffix -lla/-illä, producing paksummilla. The result combines the comparative stem with the adessive plural suffix, yielding a form that can function in predication or in adjective-noun phrases. In practice, paksummilla is commonly found with a following noun in its adessive form, or with an implicit understood noun.

Examples:

- Reunat olivat paksummilla kuin keskiosat. (The edges were thicker than the central parts.)

- Seinien paksummilla reunoilla there are decorative profiles. (The thicker edges of the walls bear decorative profiles.)

- Palkkien paksummilla päillä on greater load-bearing capacity. (The thicker ends of the beams have greater load-bearing capacity.)

Notes: Paksummilla is not a separate dictionary headword, but a standard inflected form used in descriptive language to compare thickness across items. It is most common in contexts dealing with geometry, architecture, materials, and design, where plural references to multiple parts are described in relation to their thickness.

See also: Finnish grammar, adjectives, comparative forms, adessive case.