liesu

• IPA^(key): /ˈlie̯su/, [ˈlie̞̯s̠u]
• Rhymes: -iesu
• Syllabification^(key): lie‧su

Possibly borrowed from Russian лес (les, “forest”).

• lietsu

liesu (colloquial)

1. (used chiefly adverbially in inessive, elative and illative singular) the condition of not being at home; being out

   Se tyttö on aina liesussa.

   That girl is always out somewhere.

   Taasko sinä lähdet liesuun?

   Are you going out again?

• liesuta

• “1. liesu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Perhaps identical to the northern dialectal word liesu (“foxhole, burrow”), which is a Sami borrowing (compare Northern Sami liessu), due to the propensity of these plants to grow in rock crevasses. Within Finland, the plant grows only in Lapland, which makes up much of the north of the country (although it has also grown in Aland in the past). Already attested in Elias Lönnrot's Flora Fennica (1860), the earliest major botanical work in Finnish.

liesu

1. (botany) rockbrake, parsley fern (Cryptogramma crispa)

• “2. liesu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• sielu, ulise