ruumillista

Ruumillista is the partitive singular form of the Finnish adjective ruumiillinen, which means bodily or corporeal. In ordinary usage, ruumiillista accompanies a noun in the partitive case, typically when describing a process, state, or experience that involves the body or physicality. For example, ruumiillista työtä means bodily work, and ruumiillista kokemusta means bodily experience.

Morphology and usage explain why ruumiillista appears where it does. The base adjective ruumiillinen is formed from the stem ruumis (body) plus the suffix -llinen, which yields an adjective meaning related to the body. The partitive singular suffix -ista attaches to this inflected form to produce ruumiillista. Other inflected forms exist as well, such as ruumiillisen (genitive) or ruumiillisuutta (bodiliness in partitive).

Semantically, ruumiillista is used when writers want to emphasize physical, sensory, or corporeal dimensions as distinct from mental, emotional, or abstract aspects. It often appears in medical, anthropological, philosophical, or literary contexts, where the bodily character of a phenomenon is central to the description.

Related terms include ruumiillinen (the base adjective), ruumiillisuus (bodiliness or corporeality), and ruumiillistaa or ruumiillistaminen (to embody or embodiment). See also Finnish grammar discussions on adjectives and partitive usage, as well as vocabulary related to the body (keho, ruumis).