hirvas
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *hirvas, borrowed from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śirwas. Cognate with Northern Sami sarvvis, which must have either been borrowed directly from Balto-Slavic or (more likely) come via Finnic before *š became h.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hirvas
Declension
[edit]Inflection of hirvas (Kotus type 41/vieras, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hirvas | hirvaat | |
genitive | hirvaan | hirvaiden hirvaitten | |
partitive | hirvasta | hirvaita | |
illative | hirvaaseen | hirvaisiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hirvas | hirvaat | |
accusative | nom. | hirvas | hirvaat |
gen. | hirvaan | ||
genitive | hirvaan | hirvaiden hirvaitten hirvasten rare | |
partitive | hirvasta | hirvaita | |
inessive | hirvaassa | hirvaissa | |
elative | hirvaasta | hirvaista | |
illative | hirvaaseen | hirvaisiin hirvaihin rare | |
adessive | hirvaalla | hirvailla | |
ablative | hirvaalta | hirvailta | |
allative | hirvaalle | hirvaille | |
essive | hirvaana | hirvaina | |
translative | hirvaaksi | hirvaiksi | |
abessive | hirvaatta | hirvaitta | |
instructive | — | hirvain | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Serbo-Croatian: ȉrvās (“reindeer”)
Further reading
[edit]- “hirvas”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/irʋɑs
- Rhymes:Finnish/irʋɑs/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish vieras-type nominals
- fi:Reindeers