syvvä

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *söödäk. Cognates include Finnish syödä and Estonian sööda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲyʋːæ/
• Hyphenation: syv‧vä
• Rhymes: -yʋːæ

Verb

syvvä

1. (transitive) to eat
2. (intransitive) to eat
3. (transitive, of fish) to bite on

   Kala syöy čyötön. ― The fish bites on the worm.

4. (transitive, of insects) to bite

   Pinʹoi syi minun. ― The mosquito bit me.

References

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