Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈtuli/, [ˈt̪uli]
• Rhymes: -uli
• Syllabification(key): tu‧li
• Hyphenation(key): tu‧li

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tuli (compare Estonian tuli), from Proto-Uralic *tule (compare Northern Sami dolla, Moksha тол (tol), Eastern Mari тул (tul), Udmurt тыл (tyl), Tundra Nenets ту (tu)). tuli has previously been typical of Eastern Finnish, whereas Western Finnish dialects usually used valkea.

Noun

tuli

1. fire (reaction; burning)
   leikkiä tulella ― to play with fire
2. fire (instance of this chemical reaction)
   Synonyms: (more common in this sense) tulipalo, palo
3. synonym of nuotio (“campfire”)
4. fire, gunfire
   Synonym: tulitus
   tuli seis! ― cease fire! (stop firing/shooting)
5. (alchemy) fire (one of the basic elements)

Etymology 2

Verb

tuli

1. third-person singular past indicative of tulla:
2. to come (move nearer)
3. to become, get, go, turn
4. (impersonal + elative) to become, get, go, turn (noun, adjective, participle, etc.)
5. to become, get, go, turn [with translative] (usually an adjective or a participle, only rarely a noun)
6. to come into, get [with illative] (enter a state of being)
7. (impersonal + genitive) to have to, be to, should, be supposed to [with first infinitive]
8. A verb used to construct the emphatic future tense; the present tense is usually used instead as a future tense. [with illative of third infinitive]
9. Used to express the passive voice for arbitrary verbs [with translative of past passive participle]
10. Used to express the passive voice, particularly if the action is less definite, or in direct questions; mostly synonymous with the previous use with the translative, however [with partitive of past passive participle]
11. to happen to do, manage to do (more or less unintentionally), to succeed in doing (more or less unintentionally) [with translative of past active participle]
12. (slang) to cum, orgasm

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