kekri
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *kekri (perhaps from earlier *kekrä), possibly borrowed from early Proto-Indo-Iranian *ḱekrám (later *čakrám), in which case a distant doublet of chakra, kaula, and sykli. See the Proto-Finnic entry for more.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kekri
- harvest festival (old Finnish feast celebrated between Michaelmas and Halloween, exact time depending on annual conditions)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kekri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | kekri | kekrit | |
genitive | kekrin | kekrien | |
partitive | kekriä | kekrejä | |
illative | kekriin | kekreihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kekri | kekrit | |
accusative | nom. | kekri | kekrit |
gen. | kekrin | ||
genitive | kekrin | kekrien | |
partitive | kekriä | kekrejä | |
inessive | kekrissä | kekreissä | |
elative | kekristä | kekreistä | |
illative | kekriin | kekreihin | |
adessive | kekrillä | kekreillä | |
ablative | kekriltä | kekreiltä | |
allative | kekrille | kekreille | |
essive | kekrinä | kekreinä | |
translative | kekriksi | kekreiksi | |
abessive | kekrittä | kekreittä | |
instructive | — | kekrein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Alternative forms
[edit]- Eastern Savonia: keyri/keuri
- Western Savonia and Southern Ostrobothnia: köyri
- Tavastia and Northern Ostrobothnia: köyry
Further reading
[edit]- “kekri”, 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
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- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Finnish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷel-
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Finnish doublets
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ekri
- Rhymes:Finnish/ekri/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Holidays