syötön

Syötön is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun syöttö, which derives from the verb syöttää meaning to feed or to supply. The word is used across several domains to indicate a relationship to the act of feeding, supplying, or providing something to a system, recipient, or process.

In general use, syöttö covers provisioning or supply of food, data, energy, or other inputs. In technology and electronics, it appears in phrases such as syöttöjännite (supply voltage) or syötön lähde (source of input), referring to things that feed power or data into a device. In computing or data contexts, syöttö can describe incoming information or data feeds, i.e., inputs to a program or system. In agriculture or animal husbandry, it may denote the supply of feed to animals.

In sports and ball games, syöttö is the term for a serve or pass that starts a rally, and the genitive syötön is used in descriptions of the serve, for example in statements about the quality or speed of a syötön.

Grammatical note: syötön functions as the possessive/genitive form of syöttö. It is distinct from syöte, another Finnish noun meaning “input” in computing; syötön corresponds to the genitive of syöttö, while syötteen is the genitive of syöte.

See also: syöttö, syöte.