kazi
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
kazi (plural kazis)
- (historical) Alternative form of Kazi
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kazi (plural kazis)
- Alternative form of khazi (“toilet”)
- 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 183:
- “Go and clean the kazi now.”
Anagrams edit
Karelian edit
North Karelian (Viena) |
kasi |
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South Karelian (Tver) |
kazi |
Etymology edit
From an East Slavic language. Cognates include dialectal Finnish kasi and Veps kaži.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kazi (genitive kazin, partitive kazie, diminutive kazine)
Declension edit
Tver Karelian declension of kazi (type 2/risti, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | kazi | kazit | |
genitive | kazin | kaziloin | |
partitive | kazie | kaziloida | |
illative | kazih | kaziloih | |
inessive | kazissa | kaziloissa | |
elative | kazista | kaziloista | |
adessive | kazilla | kaziloilla | |
ablative | kazilda | kaziloilda | |
translative | kaziksi | kaziloiksi | |
essive | kazina | kaziloina | |
comitative | kazinke | kaziloinke | |
abessive | kazitta | kaziloitta |
Possessive forms of kazi | ||
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1st person | kazini | |
2nd person | kazis | |
3rd person | kazih | |
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. |
Synonyms edit
- kišša (North Karelian or dialectal)
References edit
Mwani edit
Noun edit
kazi class 9 (plural kazi)
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *cad-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kazi (n class, plural kazi)
Derived terms edit
- -fanya kazi (“to work”)
Yeyi edit
Noun edit
kazi
References edit
- Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)