säilitama

Säilitama is a Finnish verb that denotes preserving, keeping, or storing something for future use. The term is not common in modern standard Finnish and is most often encountered in historical, technical, or dialectal texts. In everyday language, speakers usually choose säilyttää (to keep, retain) or säilöä (to preserve, especially food), or varastoida (to store in a warehouse).

The sense of säilitama covers maintaining the condition of objects over time and ensuring their continued availability, including both physical preservation and archival or digital contexts. It is part of a family of preservation-related words in Finnish, linked to the root säily- found in related terms such as säilytys (preservation, storage), säilyttäminen (the act of preserving), and säilö (to preserve, to can).

Etymology and usage context: säilitama is formed from the semantic root säily- with the nominalizing -ma ending, aligning with other Finnish verbs that express an act or process. Because the form is comparatively rare in contemporary language, dictionaries and corpora tend to favor säilyttää or säilöä for everyday use. In specialized texts, particularly older or regional writings, säilitama may appear, but it remains a marginal alternative to standard vocabulary.

See also: Säilyttäminen, Säilytys, Säilyttäminen, Säilöminen, Säilö. Related verbs: säilyttää, säilöä, varastoida.