Karelian edit

Regional variants of kešä
North Karelian
(Viena)
kešä
South Karelian
(Tver)
kežä
Seasons of the year
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *kesä. Cognates include Finnish kesä and Veps keza.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeʃæ/
  • Hyphenation: ke‧šä

Noun edit

kešä (genitive kešän, partitive kešyä)

  1. (North Karelian) summer

Declension edit

Viena Karelian declension of kešä (type 5/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kešä kešät
genitive kešän kešien
partitive kešyä kešie
illative kešäh keših
inessive kešäššä kešissä
elative kešäštä kešistä
adessive kešällä kešillä
ablative kešältä kešiltä
translative kešäkši kešiksi
essive kešänä kešinä
comitative kešineh
abessive kešättä kešittä
Possessive forms of kešä
1st person kešäni
2nd person kešäš
3rd person kešäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kesä”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN