tuvi
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German dûve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ, whence also English dove and German Taube.
Dialectal variants include tui (where the v has been lost) and tuuvi, compare also Ingrian tuuvi. See also turteltuvi. First attested in 1632.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tuvi (genitive tuvi, partitive tuvi)
- dove, pigeon (Columba)
- parem varblane peos kui tuvi katusel ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (literally, “better a sparrow in the palm than a pigeon on the roof”)
Declension edit
| Declension of tuvi (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | tuvi | tuvid | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | tuvi | ||
| genitive | tuvide | ||
| partitive | tuvi | tuvisid | |
| illative | tuvisse | tuvidesse | |
| inessive | tuvis | tuvides | |
| elative | tuvist | tuvidest | |
| allative | tuvile | tuvidele | |
| adessive | tuvil | tuvidel | |
| ablative | tuvilt | tuvidelt | |
| translative | tuviks | tuvideks | |
| terminative | tuvini | tuvideni | |
| essive | tuvina | tuvidena | |
| abessive | tuvita | tuvideta | |
| comitative | tuviga | tuvidega | |
Derived terms edit
Compounds edit
References edit
- tuvi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “tuvi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- Jüri Viikberg (2016) “tuvi”, in [ASL] Alamsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [Low German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)
Latvian edit
Adjective edit
tuvi