reitiltä

Reitiltä is the elative form of the Finnish noun reitti, meaning route or path. It is used to express origin from a route, distance from the route, or movement away from a designated way. In geographic descriptions, reitiltä helps specify that something is located off or departed from a particular path.

Etymology and form: The word is formed by adding the elative suffix -ltä to reitti. In Finnish, the elative case denotes origin or movement away from a location. The base reitti itself comes from reitt- plus the feminine noun ending, and the full form reitiltä carries the stress on the first syllable.

Usage: Reitiltä appears in travel writing, maps, and grammar examples to illustrate the elative case. It can describe a position relative to a route, or a deviation from a planned path. Common constructions include: "Polku erkani reitiltä" (the path veered off the route) and "Reitiltä poikkeaminen on kielletty" (deviation from the route is prohibited). It is often paired with other cases to specify direction or distance, such as reitille (illative, toward the route) or reitillä (inessive, on the route).

See also: Finnish grammar, elative case, reitti.