mähis

See also: mahis

Estonian

Etymology

From mähkima (“to wrap”) +‎ -is (“product resulting from the action”).

Noun

mähis (genitive mähise, partitive mähist)

1. a wrapping

   Synonyms: side, mähe, rull, köidis, punutis, pinde, pakk, ümbris

   1. (medical) compress; binding

      Synonyms: side, pinde, kompress, sukk

   2. (engineering) coil; winding; binding; wrapping
   3. (archery) serving

      Synonyms: nöörimähis, punutis, bandaaž

   4. (culinary) wrapper (increasingly rarer)

      Synonym: rull

• Usage Notes: Generic usage has been shifting towards medical and engineering senses in specific. Culinary sense has been loosing popularity due to developed specifications and ambiguity caused by it. Now in culinary "rull" (roll) has partially started to cover the role of wrapping.

Declension

Declension of mähis (ÕS type 9/katus, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		mähis	mähised
accusative	nom.
	gen.	mähise
genitive			mähiste
partitive		mähist	mähiseid
illative		mähisesse	mähistesse mähiseisse
inessive		mähises	mähistes mähiseis
elative		mähisest	mähistest mähiseist
allative		mähisele	mähistele mähiseile
adessive		mähisel	mähistel mähiseil
ablative		mähiselt	mähistelt mähiseilt
translative		mähiseks	mähisteks mähiseiks
terminative		mähiseni	mähisteni
essive		mähisena	mähistena
abessive		mähiseta	mähisteta
comitative		mähisega	mähistega

See also

• pool

Further reading

• “mähis”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009