kirsi
Estonian edit
Noun edit
kirsi
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *kirci (compare Estonian kirs, Ingrian kersi, Karelian kirsi, Livonian kirt), possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian apskirsti (“to freeze”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kirsi
- ground frost (frozen top layer of soil caused by cold weather in winter)
Declension edit
Inflection of kirsi (Kotus type 28*K/kynsi, rt-rr gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kirsi | kirret | ||
genitive | kirren | kirsien | ||
partitive | kirttä | kirsiä | ||
illative | kirteen | kirsiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kirsi | kirret | ||
accusative | nom. | kirsi | kirret | |
gen. | kirren | |||
genitive | kirren | kirsien kirttenrare | ||
partitive | kirttä | kirsiä | ||
inessive | kirressä | kirsissä | ||
elative | kirrestä | kirsistä | ||
illative | kirteen | kirsiin | ||
adessive | kirrellä | kirsillä | ||
ablative | kirreltä | kirsiltä | ||
allative | kirrelle | kirsille | ||
essive | kirtenä | kirsinä | ||
translative | kirreksi | kirsiksi | ||
abessive | kirrettä | kirsittä | ||
instructive | — | kirsin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- verbs: kirsiä
Compounds edit
Further reading edit
- “kirsi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02