Krabo wrote:
Skilpadde wrote:
Shellpadday. Kilpikonnatai. It sounds so right.
Good one! You should spell it like kilpikonna
ntai. The additional "n" is needed in certain compounds.
Forcing the suffix -tai into Krabo doesn't seem to work. However, crab is in Finnish rapu and Rapustai looks fine. (Again, Swedish influence for the "s.")
Interesting. That makes sense to me in a way, because we insert letters too in order to combine two words. The letters are usually s or e.