tiili

Borrowed from Old Swedish tighl, from Old Norse tigl, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ, from Latin tēgula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːli/, [ˈt̪iːli]
• Rhymes: -iːli
• Syllabification^(key): tii‧li

tiili

1. brick (construction block)

   punainen tiili kädes, sinä vapauteesi juokse

   red brick in hand, run toward your freedom

2. brick (material)
3. tile (used mostly of unglazed heavy tiles, such as roof tiles)

The above declension is as specified by the Nykysuomen sanakirja. The later Kielitoimiston sanakirja instead specifies the declension as follows:

The only difference between the two classes is whether the genitive plural tiilten is accepted or not. In practice, tiilten is used fairly often, and thus the class that allows it is listed first.

• “tiili”, 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 2023-07-03

• liiti