pitkin

Instructive plural of pitkä (“long”). Akin to Karelian pitin, Ingrian pitkin and Estonian piki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpitkin/, [ˈpit̪kin]
• Rhymes: -itkin
• Syllabification^(key): pit‧kin

pitkin

1. instructive plural of pitkä

pitkin (+ partitive)

1. along (in a line with, with a progressive motion on)
2. along (by the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to)

• pitkin poikin

Instructive plural of pitkä (“long”). Akin to Finnish pitkin and Estonian piki.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpitkin/, [ˈpitkĭn]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpitkin/, [ˈpitkin]
• Rhymes: -itkin
• Hyphenation: pit‧kin

pitkin (+ partitive)

1. along
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 43:

     Pitkin patsait vennuu rautalanka hoikka.

     A thin wire stretches along the pylons.

pitkin (+ partitive)

1. along
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 135:

     Teetä pitkin ajoi traktora.

     The tractor rode along the path.

• mööt, möötä, möit

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 411