Karelian edit

Regional variants of šinini
North Karelian
(Viena)
šinini
South Karelian
(Tver)
sinine

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *sininen. Cognates include Finnish sininen and Veps sinine.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃinʲinʲi/
  • Hyphenation: ši‧ni‧ni

Noun edit

šinini (genitive šinisen, partitive šinistä)

  1. (North Karelian) blue

Declension edit

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References edit

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