puumaisissa
Puumaisissa is a Finnish inflected form of the adjective puumainen, meaning wooden-like or wood-based. In standard Finnish, puumaisissa is the inessive plural form used to describe plural nouns in the inessive case, for example puumaisissa rakennuksissa (in wooden-like structures) or puumaisissa huoneissa (in wooden-like rooms).
The word is built from the base puu (wood) and the adjectival ending -mainen, yielding puumainen (wooden-like).
Puumaisissa is primarily found in descriptive or literary contexts, where writers want to evoke texture or
- Puumaisissa taloissa oli vanha, butiikkimainen tuoksu. (In wooden-like houses there was an old, boutique-like scent.)
- Hän muistutti paikkansa puumaisissa rakennuksissa, joissa kapeat käytävät mutkittelivat. (He recalled his place in wooden-like buildings