kešä

Karelian

Regional variants of kešä

North Karelian (Viena)	kešä
South Karelian (Tver)	kežä

Seasons of the year

Previous:	kevät
Next:	šykšy

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kesä. Cognates include Finnish kesä and Veps keza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeʃæ/
• Hyphenation: ke‧šä

Noun

kešä (genitive kešän, partitive kešyä)

1. (North Karelian) summer

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of kešä (type 5/koira, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kešä	kešät
genitive	kešän	kešien
partitive	kešyä	kešie
illative	kešäh	keših
inessive	kešäššä	kešissä
elative	kešäštä	kešistä
adessive	kešällä	kešillä
ablative	kešältä	kešiltä
translative	kešäkši	kešiksi
essive	kešänä	kešinä
comitative	—	kešineh
abessive	kešättä	kešittä

Possessive forms of kešä
1st person	kešäni
2nd person	kešäš
3rd person	kešäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms

• kešäkuu

 

References

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kesä”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN