toonela

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish tuonela at the end of the 19th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtoˑnelɑ/, [ˈtoˑnelɑ]
  • Rhymes: -oˑnelɑ
  • Hyphenation: too‧ne‧la

Noun

toonela (genitive toonela, partitive toonelat)

  1. (Finnic mythology) a mythical place where all people go after death, equvalent to the underworld
    Synonym: manala
    toonela teele minema (idiomatic, poetic) ― to die (literally, “to embark on the road of toonela”)

Declension

Declension of toonela (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative toonela toonelad
accusative nom.
gen. toonela
genitive toonelate
partitive toonelat toonelaid
illative toonelasse toonelatesse
toonelaisse
inessive toonelas toonelates
toonelais
elative toonelast toonelatest
toonelaist
allative toonelale toonelatele
toonelaile
adessive toonelal toonelatel
toonelail
ablative toonelalt toonelatelt
toonelailt
translative toonelaks toonelateks
toonelaiks
terminative toonelani toonelateni
essive toonelana toonelatena
abessive toonelata toonelateta
comitative toonelaga toonelatega

Derived terms

  • toonelane

References

  • toonela in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “toonela”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
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