"kielen päällä" meaning in Finnish

See kielen päällä in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Phrase

Etymology: kielen (“of the tongue”) + päällä (“on top”) Etymology templates: {{m|fi|kieli|kielen|of the tongue}} kielen (“of the tongue”), {{m|fi|päällä||on top}} päällä (“on top”) Head templates: {{head|fi|phrase|head=kielen päällä}} kielen päällä
  1. (idiomatic) on the tip of one's tongue (known but not quite remembered) Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-kielen_päällä-fi-phrase-6d3rw66r

Download JSON data for kielen päällä meaning in Finnish (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "kieli",
        "3": "kielen",
        "4": "of the tongue"
      },
      "expansion": "kielen (“of the tongue”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "päällä",
        "3": "",
        "4": "on top"
      },
      "expansion": "päällä (“on top”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "kielen (“of the tongue”) + päällä (“on top”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "kielen päällä"
      },
      "expansion": "kielen päällä",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Her name is on the tip of my tongue; it could be Kathy or Karen or something.",
          "text": "Hänen nimensä on ihan kielen päällä; se voisi olla Kati tai Kaari tai jotakin.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "on the tip of one's tongue (known but not quite remembered)"
      ],
      "id": "en-kielen_päällä-fi-phrase-6d3rw66r",
      "links": [
        [
          "on the tip of one's tongue",
          "on the tip of one's tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) on the tip of one's tongue (known but not quite remembered)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kielen päällä"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "kieli",
        "3": "kielen",
        "4": "of the tongue"
      },
      "expansion": "kielen (“of the tongue”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "päällä",
        "3": "",
        "4": "on top"
      },
      "expansion": "päällä (“on top”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "kielen (“of the tongue”) + päällä (“on top”)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "kielen päällä"
      },
      "expansion": "kielen päällä",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Finnish idioms",
        "Finnish lemmas",
        "Finnish multiword terms",
        "Finnish phrases",
        "Finnish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Her name is on the tip of my tongue; it could be Kathy or Karen or something.",
          "text": "Hänen nimensä on ihan kielen päällä; se voisi olla Kati tai Kaari tai jotakin.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "on the tip of one's tongue (known but not quite remembered)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "on the tip of one's tongue",
          "on the tip of one's tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) on the tip of one's tongue (known but not quite remembered)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kielen päällä"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Finnish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.