-ska
Finnish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-ska (front vowel harmony variant -skä, linguistic notation -skA)
- Forms diminutive nouns.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from Swedish -ska, as used in older Swedish as a suffix used to derive feminine nouns (such as sångare → sångerska, major → majorska).
Suffix[edit]
-ska (front vowel harmony variant -skä, linguistic notation -skA) (colloquial, archaic)
- (now humoristic) Used to transform husband's family name or title to a term for addressing or speaking of a married woman. Used especially with family names ending with -nen and titles ending -ri.
Anagrams[edit]
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-ska f
- used to form the names of countries and regions
Derived terms[edit]
Polish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Coalesced from Proto-Slavic *-ьskaja (definite feminine relational adjective suffix). Cognate with Czech -ská, Slovak -ská; Belarusian -ская (-skaja), -ска́я (-skája); etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-ska
- feminine nominative singular of -ski
- forms surnames
Alternative forms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: -ska
- ⇒ Ukrainian: -ська (-sʹka), -ська́ (-sʹká); (after -л- (-l-)) -ьска (-ʹska), -ьська́ (-ʹsʹká) (influenced)
- ⇒ Carpathian Rusyn: -ьска (-ʹska), -ьска́ (-ʹská); (after a labial consonant) -ска (-ska), -ска́ (-ská) (influenced)
Etymology 2[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ьska (genitive).
Pronunciation[edit]
Suffix[edit]
-ska
Slovak[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
-ska
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Suffix[edit]
-ska f
- Signifies a female (particularly after professions and nationalities); -ess
Usage notes[edit]
In older practice, a husband's title suffixed with -ska formed a title for his wife. For example, the wife of a captain (kapten) would be a kaptenska ("captainess"). This practice gradually began dying out around the 1950s. See the article on du-reformen on Wikipedia for more information.
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- Finnish terms suffixed with -kka
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish suffixes
- Finnish noun-forming suffixes
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish colloquialisms
- Finnish archaic terms
- Lower Sorbian lemmas
- Lower Sorbian suffixes
- Lower Sorbian noun-forming suffixes
- Lower Sorbian feminine suffixes
- Polish terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/a
- Rhymes:Polish/a/1 syllable
- Polish terms with homophones
- Polish lemmas
- Polish suffixes
- Slovak 1-syllable words
- Slovak terms with IPA pronunciation
- Slovak non-lemma forms
- Slovak adjective forms
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish suffixes
- Swedish feminine suffixes