Lilleri Lalleri
Finnish
Etymology
From a Finnish folk riddle.
Proper noun
Lilleri Lalleri
- Humpty Dumpty (character in folklore)
- 1922, Kaarle Krohn, Suomen kansan arvoituksia: valikoima Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran käsikirjoitus-kokoelmista [Finnish folk riddles: selection from the manuscript-collection of the Finnish Literature Society], Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura (Finnish Literature Society), page 32:
- Lilleri Lalleri laudalla makasi, Lilleri Lalleri laudalta putosi, eikä ole koko Suomenmaassa joka Lillerin Lallerin parantaa? - (Kananmuna)
- Humpty Dumpty lay on a board, Humpty Dumpty fell from the board, and there's no-one in whole Finland who could make Humpty Dumpty good again? - (A hen's egg)
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Declension
| Inflection of Lilleri Lalleri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Lilleri Lalleri | — | |
| genitive | Lilleri Lallerin | — | |
| partitive | Lilleri Lalleria | — | |
| illative | Lilleri Lalleriin | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Lilleri Lalleri | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Lilleri Lalleri | — |
| gen. | Lilleri Lallerin | ||
| genitive | Lilleri Lallerin | — | |
| partitive | Lilleri Lalleria | — | |
| inessive | Lilleri Lallerissa | — | |
| elative | Lilleri Lallerista | — | |
| illative | Lilleri Lalleriin | — | |
| adessive | Lilleri Lallerilla | — | |
| ablative | Lilleri Lallerilta | — | |
| allative | Lilleri Lallerille | — | |
| essive | Lilleri Lallerina | — | |
| translative | Lilleri Lalleriksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Lilleri Lalleritta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
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