Noun type: 23
Characteristics
Singular
| Nominative | riihi |
| Partitive | riihtä |
| Genetive | riihen |
| Accusative | riihen |
| Inessive | riihessä |
| Elative | riihestä |
| Illative | riiheen |
| Adessive | riihellä |
| Ablative | riiheltä |
| Allative | riihelle |
| Essive | riihenä |
| Translative | riiheksi |
| Abessive | riihettä |
Plural
| Nominative | riihet |
| Partitive | riihiä |
| Genetive | riihien |
| Accusative | riihet |
| Inessive | riihissä |
| Elative | riihistä |
| Illative | riihiin |
| Adessive | riihillä |
| Ablative | riihiltä |
| Allative | riihille |
| Essive | riihinä |
| Translative | riihiksi |
| Abessive | riihittä |
| Instructive | riihin |
| Comitative | riihine |
Sample Sentences
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Elot kuivattiin riihessä, puitiin varstoilla ja viskattiin viskimellä, jolloin akanat erotettiin; loppu puhdistettiin pohtimella. (The crops were dried in a riihi, threshed with flails and winnowed with a winnowing shovel, which is when the chaff was separated; the rest was cleaned with a winnowing basket.) [1924 April 30, “Entisaikain oloja Ähtärissä [Ähtäri in the Old Days]”, in Vaasa, volume 22, number 100, Vaasa: Vaasa Oy, →ISSN, page 3:]
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *riihi, from Proto-Finno-Permic *riŋeše, itself possibly a Wanderwort. Cognates include Estonian rehi, Karelian riihi. Swedish ria and Latvian rija are borrowings from Finnic. See: Swedish Nouns '
ria', Latvian Nouns '
rija'.
Verbs referencing "riihi"
Swedish Nouns
ria, Russian Nouns
рига.