kaima
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *kaima (compare Estonian kaim, Proto-Samic *kuojmē), borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Lithuanian káimas, Latvian ciems). Northern Sami gaiˈbmât (“to adapt to a companion, to enjoy company”), from Proto-Samic *kājmē, is a later borrowing from Finnic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kaima
- namesake (a person with the same name as another person)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kaima (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kaima | kaimat | |
genitive | kaiman | kaimojen | |
partitive | kaimaa | kaimoja | |
illative | kaimaan | kaimoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kaima | kaimat | |
accusative | nom. | kaima | kaimat |
gen. | kaiman | ||
genitive | kaiman | kaimojen kaimain rare | |
partitive | kaimaa | kaimoja | |
inessive | kaimassa | kaimoissa | |
elative | kaimasta | kaimoista | |
illative | kaimaan | kaimoihin | |
adessive | kaimalla | kaimoilla | |
ablative | kaimalta | kaimoilta | |
allative | kaimalle | kaimoille | |
essive | kaimana | kaimoina | |
translative | kaimaksi | kaimoiksi | |
abessive | kaimatta | kaimoitta | |
instructive | — | kaimoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kaima”, 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