vinyylistä
Vinyyli, or vinyl, refers to a family of synthetic polymers commonly used in a wide range of products, from records and flooring to coatings and adhesives. In Finnish, the material is typically referred to simply as vinyyli. A closely related word form, vinyylistä, is not a standard inflected form in modern Finnish; the standard elative singular for vinyyli is vinyylistä, meaning “from vinyl.” Encountering vinyylistä is usually the result of misspelling or dialectal variation, rather than accepted grammar.
In everyday Finnish usage, vinyyli appears in several common compound terms. Vinyylilevy denotes a vinyl record,
Linguistically, vinyyli is a borrowed term from English vinyl. The word has become integrated into Finnish
See also: vinyl records (vinyylilevy), vinyl flooring (vinyylilattia), polyvinyl chloride (polyvinyylikloridi, PVC), vinyl polymers in general.