Livvi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *käntädäk. Cognates include Finnish kääntää and Estonian käänata.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkiæ̯ndiæ̯/
  • Hyphenation: kiän‧diä

Verb edit

kiändiä

  1. (transitive) to turn
  2. (transitive) to bend
  3. (transitive, + translative) to translate
    Minä kiännän kniigua liivekse.I am translating the book into Livvi.

Derived terms edit

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References edit

  • N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎[1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 11
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 113