See also: Valge and valgė

Estonian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *valkëda, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wëlketa, from *walke or *wïlki (light). Cognate with Finnish valkea, Livonian vālda, Votic valkõa, Ingrian valkia, Karelian valgie, Livvi valgei, Ludian valged, Veps vauged, Northern Sami vielgat (from Proto-Samic *vielkëtē) and Eastern Mari волгыдо (volgydo, light, brightness); possibly also Erzya валдо (valdo, light), Moksha валда (valda, light) and Hungarian villám (lightning), világ (light).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɑlɡ̊e/, [ˈvɑlɡ̊e̞]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑlɡe
  • Hyphenation: val‧ge

Adjective edit

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget, comparative valgem, superlative kõige valgem or valgeim)

  1. white (color)
    Jõuluvanal on pikk valge habe.
    Santa Claus has a long white beard.
    Antonym: must
    1. Covered in snow.
      Hommikuks oli maa valge.
      By the morning, the ground was covered in snow.
      Synonym: lumine
  2. light, bright, illuminated
    valge suveööa white summer night
    Väljas on veel valge.
    It's still bright outside.
    Synonym: hele
    Antonym: pime
  3. Having light skin, belonging to the Caucasian race.
    valged lõuna-aafriklasedwhite South Africans
    Synonym: valgenahaline
  4. Related to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.
    Synonym: valgekaartlik

Declension edit

Declension of valge (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative valge valged
accusative nom.
gen. valge
genitive valgete
partitive valget valgeid
illative valgesse valgetesse
valgeisse
inessive valges valgetes
valgeis
elative valgest valgetest
valgeist
allative valgele valgetele
valgeile
adessive valgel valgetel
valgeil
ablative valgelt valgetelt
valgeilt
translative valgeks valgeteks
valgeiks
terminative valgeni valgeteni
essive valgena valgetena
abessive valgeta valgeteta
comitative valgega valgetega

Synonyms edit

Antonyms edit

  • (white (color)): must
  • (light, bright, illuminated): pime

Derived terms edit

adjectives
nouns
verbs

Compounds edit

Noun edit

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget)

  1. The color white, something colored in white.
    Pruut oli üleni valges.
    The bride was dressed in all-white.
  2. sunlight, illumination
    Synonym: päevavalgus
    Perenaine tõusis enne valget ja tegi hommikusöögi valmis.
    The housewife got up at the break of dawn and prepared breakfast.
  3. A person having light skin, belonging to the Caucasian race.
    Synonym: valgenahaline
    Lõuna-Aafrika valgedthe white people of South Africa
  4. A person belonging to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.
    Synonym: valgekaartlane

Declension edit

Declension of valge (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative valge valged
accusative nom.
gen. valge
genitive valgete
partitive valget valgeid
illative valgesse valgetesse
valgeisse
inessive valges valgetes
valgeis
elative valgest valgetest
valgeist
allative valgele valgetele
valgeile
adessive valgel valgetel
valgeil
ablative valgelt valgetelt
valgeilt
translative valgeks valgeteks
valgeiks
terminative valgeni valgeteni
essive valgena valgetena
abessive valgeta valgeteta
comitative valgega valgetega

Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

See also edit

Colors in Estonian · värvid (layout · text)
     valge      hall      must
             punane; karmiinpunane              oranž; pruun              kollane; kreem
             laimiroheline, kollakasroheline              roheline              mündiroheline; tumeroheline
             tsüaansinine, rohekassinine; sinakasroheline, siniroheline              taevasinine, taevassinine              sinine
             lilla, violetne; potisinine, indigosinine              fuksia, magentapunane; lilla, purpurne, purpurpunane              roosa

References edit

  • valge in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • valge”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online version, in Estonian), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Latin edit

Adjective edit

valge

  1. vocative masculine singular of valgus