juoni

From Proto-Finnic *jooni (“path”) (compare Estonian joon), from Proto-Finno-Permic *jane (compare Southern Sami joene (“road”), Erzya ян (jan, “path”)), probably borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáHnam.^[1] Sense diversification from original “path” is particular to Finnic. Compare dialectal juntu (“path”).

The narratological sense (“plot”) was first used by Finnish professor, poet and scholar August Ahlqvist in 1860.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuo̯ni/, [ˈjuo̞̯ni]
• Rhymes: -uoni
• Syllabification^(key): juo‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): juo‧ni

juoni

1. plot, scheme, conspiracy, intrigue, stratagem; ploy, ruse (secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable)
2. plot, storyline (course of a story)
3. thread (continued theme or idea)
4. (geology) dyke, dike (sheet of once igneous rock injected into older rocks)
5. (flight) groove or barrel on a crossbow
6. (dialectal, archaic) streak, stripe

   Synonyms: juova, viiru

7. (dialectal, archaic) line (straight sequence of objects)

   Synonyms: jono, rivi

• jana
• jono
• juna
• juoru

• “juoni”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuo̯ni/, [ˈjuo̞̯ni] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjuo̯niˣ/, [ˈjuo̞̯ni(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -uoni
• Syllabification^(key): juo‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): juo‧ni

juoni

1. inflection of juonia:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Jouni, joiun, ujoin