pelKÄLtä

Pelkältä is a form that appears in some Finnish language contexts but is not part of standard Finnish lexicon. It is not listed as a separate lemma in mainstream dictionaries, and its status is generally described as marginal, dialectal, or archaic in nature. Some linguistic descriptions treat pelkältä as a nonstandard or regional variant that would convey a sense related to the direction or source of fear, similar to other postpositional expressions built with the idea of “from” or “out of.”

In usage terms, pelkältä is typically discussed as a nonstandard or historical form rather than a routine part of contemporary speech. Its exact interpretation can vary by dialect, and it is most often encountered in older texts, regional speech, or linguistic investigations rather than in everyday writing or conversation. Because Finnish ordinarily marks derivations of motive or source with established postpositional forms and phrases, pelkältä is often considered an obsolete or noncanonical alternative to standard expressions.

For meaning and style, standard Finnish tends to use phrases such as pelosta (from fear), pelon vuoksi (due to fear), or pelosta käsin (by fear) to express a cause or motive related to fear. If pelkältä is found in a text, readers are advised to interpret it as a nonstandard variant and to rely on the surrounding context or on more widely accepted constructions for clarity.

Phonology and morphology notes: pelkältä would be pronounced with Finnish stress on the first syllable, roughly as pel-KÄL-tä, with the final ä pronounced as in standard Finnish. It would be analyzed as a hypothetical postpositional form rather than a productive canonical form in modern Finnish.

See also: pelko, pelätä, pelosta, pelon vuoksi, pelosta käsin.