mehaanik

Estonian

Etymology

Back-formation from mehaanika.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meˈhɑˑnik/, [meˈɦɑˑnʲikˑ]
Rhymes: -ɑˑnik
Hyphenation: me‧haa‧nik

Noun

mehaanik (genitive mehaaniku, partitive mehaanikut)

mechanic, engineer (a skilled worker who builds, maintains and repairs machinery and equipment)

Usage notes

The exceptional spelling of the words mehaanika, mehaanik, mehaaniline with one h instead of two, as Estonians often (incorrectly) spell them, follows Elmar Muuk's suggestion in the 1920s to treat them as loan words, not foreign words. Since 1953, variants with one or two h's have been allowed, since 2006, variants with one h have been preferred.

Declension

Declension of mehaanik (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mehaanik	mehaanikud
accusative	nom.	mehaanik
accusative	gen.	mehaaniku
genitive		mehaaniku	mehaanikute
partitive		mehaanikut	mehaanikuid
illative		mehaanikusse	mehaanikutesse mehaanikuisse
inessive		mehaanikus	mehaanikutes mehaanikuis
elative		mehaanikust	mehaanikutest mehaanikuist
allative		mehaanikule	mehaanikutele mehaanikuile
adessive		mehaanikul	mehaanikutel mehaanikuil
ablative		mehaanikult	mehaanikutelt mehaanikuilt
translative		mehaanikuks	mehaanikuteks mehaanikuiks
terminative		mehaanikuni	mehaanikuteni
essive		mehaanikuna	mehaanikutena
abessive		mehaanikuta	mehaanikuteta
comitative		mehaanikuga	mehaanikutega

Compounds

Related terms

mehaaniline

References

mehaanik in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
“mehaanik”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
“mehaanik”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN