pehmei

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pehmedä. Cognates include Finnish pehmeä and Estonian pehme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpehmei̯/
• Hyphenation: peh‧mei
• Rhymes: -ehmei̯

Adjective

pehmei (genitive pehmien, partitive pehmiedy)

1. soft
2. (phonology) palatalised

Derived terms

(verb):

• pehmendiä

 

References

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “pehmei”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN