jänisʹ

Karelian

Regional variants of jänisʹ

North Karelian (Viena)	jänis
South Karelian (Tver)	jänisʹ (dialectal) jänis

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jänis. Cognates include Finnish jänis and Veps jäniš.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjænʲisʲ/
• Hyphenation: jä‧nisʹ

Noun

jänisʹ (genitive jäniksen, partitive jänisʹtä)

1. (South Karelian) hare

Declension

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Possessive forms of jänisʹ
1st person	jänikseni
2nd person	jänikseš
3rd person	jänikseh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

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