Karelian edit

Regional variants of kyngä
North Karelian
(Viena)
kynkä
South Karelian
(Tver)
kyngä

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic [Term?]. Cognates include Finnish kyynärä and Estonian küünar.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkyŋɡæ/
  • Hyphenation: kyn‧gä

Noun edit

kyngä (genitive kyngän, partitive kyngiä)

  1. (South Karelian) elbow

Declension edit

Tver Karelian declension of kyngä (type 5/koira no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kyngä kyngät
genitive kyngän kyngin
partitive kyngiä kyngie
illative kyngäh kyngih
inessive kyngäššä kyngissä
elative kyngäštä kyngistä
adessive kyngällä kyngillä
ablative kyngäldä kyngildä
translative kyngäkši kyngiksi
essive kyngänä kynginä
comitative kyngänke kynginke
abessive kyngättä kyngittä
Possessive forms of kyngä
1st person kyngäni
2nd person kyngäš
3rd person kyngäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References edit

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kyngä”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN