karhunpeijaiset
Finnish
FWOTD – 17 November 2017
Etymology
karhun (“of bear”) + peijaiset (“feast to celebrate the kill of a large wild animal, especially a bear or an elk”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑrhunˌpei̯jɑi̯set/, [ˈkɑ̝rhumˌpe̞i̯j(ː)ɑ̝i̯s̠e̞t̪]
- Rhymes: -eijɑiset
- Syllabification(key): kar‧hun‧pei‧jai‧set
Noun
karhunpeijaiset pl
- (folklore, archaic) A ritual feast celebrated after the kill of a bear in order to conciliate the spirit of the animal.
- 2008, Risto Pottonen, Kalevala suomeksi [Kalevala explained], BoD - Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 488:
- Juhlien sankari otetaan vastaan juhlatalossa arvokkaasti. Se saapuu sinne kuin vävy häihinsä. Karhunpeijaiset käsitettiin karhun hääjuhliksi. Urospuoliselle karhulle valittiin neito morsiameksi, naaraspuoliselle nuori mies.
- The center of the celebration is received with respect in the house of feast. It arrives like a groom to his wedding. The bear-funeral was understood as the wedding of the bear. To a male bear a maiden was chosen for a bride, to a female a young man.
- 1894, Väinö Voionmaa, Kuvauksia Suomen kansan esihistoriasta [Descriptions of the prehistory of the Finnish people], Gummerus, page 229:
- Ikivanhan suomalaisen tavan mukaan oli karhunpeijaisissa viimeinen meno karhun pääluitten juhlallinen saattaminen metsään.
- Accorrding to an ancient Finnish tradition the last number in a bear-funeral was a festive procession that escorted the skull of the bear to the forest.
- 1894, Julius Krohn, Suomen suvun pakanallinen jumalanpalvelu [Paganistic worshipping of the Fennougric peoples] (Toimituksia; 83), Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, →ISSN, page 229:
- Tämä muistuttaa hyvin läheisesti meillä karhunpeijaisissa käytetystä tavasta; karhunkallo näet naulattiin karsittuun petäjään lähellä taloa tai kuljetettiin erityiselle saarelle, jossa se kiinnitettiin honkaan.
- This resembles quite closely a tradition in our bear-funeral; the skull was nailed to a delimbed pine tree near the house or was transported to a designated island on which it was attached to a pine tree.
- bear festival (modern-day celebration to honor the kill of a bear)
Declension
Inflection of karhunpeijaiset (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | — | karhunpeijaiset | ||
genitive | — | karhunpeijaisten karhunpeijaisien | ||
partitive | — | karhunpeijaisia | ||
illative | — | karhunpeijaisiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | — | karhunpeijaiset | ||
accusative | nom. | — | karhunpeijaiset | |
gen. | — | |||
genitive | — | karhunpeijaisten karhunpeijaisien | ||
partitive | — | karhunpeijaisia | ||
inessive | — | karhunpeijaisissa | ||
elative | — | karhunpeijaisista | ||
illative | — | karhunpeijaisiin | ||
adessive | — | karhunpeijaisilla | ||
ablative | — | karhunpeijaisilta | ||
allative | — | karhunpeijaisille | ||
essive | — | karhunpeijaisina | ||
translative | — | karhunpeijaisiksi | ||
abessive | — | karhunpeijaisitta | ||
instructive | — | karhunpeijaisin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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See also
Further reading
- “karhunpeijaiset”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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