tilallisiin

Tilallisiin is a Finnish word used in era-specific or historical contexts. It is the illative plural form of tilallinen, a noun that historically referred to a tenant or holder of a farm or estate. The root tilallinen comes from tila, meaning a holding, estate, or farm, and the suffix -linen or -allinen indicating a person connected with that holding. In older agrarian language tilallinen described someone who occupied or rented a tilu or tila from a landowner.

The form tilallisiin serves as the illative plural, typically used to indicate direction or destination toward the tenants in sentences describing actions affecting that group. For example, it might appear in archival or legal texts where communications, obligations, or duties were addressed to multiple tenants. In modern Finnish, however, this usage is uncommon outside historical or dialectal registers.

Modern terminology for similar meanings has largely shifted to vuokralainen for a tenant, or tilanhoitaja and maanomistaja in related agricultural or property contexts. As a result, tilallisiin and tilallinen are mostly found in historical writings, studies of estate systems, or linguistic discussions of Finnish inflection and older agrarian vocabulary.

Etymologically, tilallisiin illustrates Finnish noun formation around the concept of a held or managed property (tila) and the way illative plural forms attach to such base nouns. Related terms include tilallinen (tenant/holder), tila (holding/estate), tilanhoitaja (estate manager), and vuokralainen (tenant).

See also: tilallinen, tila, tilanhoitaja, vuokralainen.