broadly, any abstract thing, affair, matter, or fact · act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases) · experience, having been or done (used with ある (aru, “have, possess”))
köken: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kətə. Cognate with 言 (koto, “word”).
that is, that is to say, i.e.; in other words, to put it another way; as in (used to introduce a clarification or explanation) · or, also known as, AKA, a.k.a. (used to introduce an alternative name) · or (used to introduce an alternate title for a work)
köken: Either from the pronominal stem e- seen in että (compare mikäli, from mikä), or alternatively a North Germanic loan (compare Old Norse ella, ellar, from Proto-Germanic *aljaz). Also compare Estonian elik.
aile: elikkä
Hän tulee tänne maanantaina eli ylihuomenna.
Kuivajää sublimoituu lämmetessään kaasuksi, eli se muuttuu suoraan kaasuksi muuttumatta välillä nesteeksi.
Refers to a hypothetical or hoped-for possibility that is not entirely certain: perhaps, maybe · Occurs in modest speech, especially when making a wish or a request.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *ehkä, cognate with Finnish ehkä, Votic ehči, Karelian ehki. Possibly derived from the negative verb stem *e-, whence modern Estonian ei, or from an identical Proto-Uralic stem meaning 'this', from which et. A third theory suggests a Baltic loan, ← Proto-Balto-Slavic *jḗˀgāˀ (compare modern Lithuanian jėgà (“force, power”) and Latvian jȩ̃ga (“understanding, sense, intellect”)).