hämu

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “derived from hämar”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæmu/, [ˈ(h)æmu]
• Rhymes: -æmu
• Hyphenation: hä‧mu

Noun

hämu (genitive hämu, partitive hämu) (meteorology)

1. fog
2. mist, haze

Declension

Declension of hämu (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		hämu	hämud
accusative	nom.
	gen.	hämu
genitive			hämude
partitive		hämu	hämusid
illative		hämmu hämusse	hämudesse
inessive		hämus	hämudes
elative		hämust	hämudest
allative		hämule	hämudele
adessive		hämul	hämudel
ablative		hämult	hämudelt
translative		hämuks	hämudeks
terminative		hämuni	hämudeni
essive		hämuna	hämudena
abessive		hämuta	hämudeta
comitative		hämuga	hämudega

Further reading

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