mehiläini

Karelian

Regional variants of mehiläini

North Karelian (Viena)	mehiläini
South Karelian (Tver)	mehliehäne

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mehiläinen. Cognates include Finnish mehiläinen and Ingrian mehiläin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmehiˌlʲæi̯nʲi/
• Hyphenation: me‧hi‧läi‧ni

Noun

mehiläini (genitive mehiläisen, partitive mehiläistä)

1. (North Karelian) bee

Declension

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References

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 104