melkeen
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A dialectal form of the instructive singular of melkeä. Compare melkein.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]melkeen
- (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of melkein.
Ingrian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably borrowed from, or alternatively akin to, Finnish melkein, melkeen.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmelkeːn/, [ˈme̞lʲke̞n]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmelkeːn/, [ˈme̞lke̝ːn]
- Rhymes: -elkeːn
- Hyphenation: mel‧keen
Adverb
[edit]melkeen
- almost
- 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 16:
- Sentää, ku neet sanat saotaa melkeen yhel viisii i Soikkolaas i Laukaal […]
- Because these words are pronounced in almost the same way in Soikkola and Ala-Laukaa […]
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
- Jo melkeen kaik kasvot - puut, pehot ja heinät kukkivat, antoivat seemenet, a seemenist tulovaal vootta ilmahtuut uuvvet, nooret kasvot.
- Almost all plants - trees, shrubs and grasses blossomed, gave seeds, and next year from the seeds new, young plants will appear.
- approximately
- 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:
- Mittaisivat mitälee plaanua mööt, reknaisiit ja sanoivat, etti linnaa saa ono neljä kilometraa i yli tunnin, melkeen, möö leenemmä kois.
- They measured something along the map, counted and said, that it's four kilometers to the city and in an hour, approximately, we would be home.
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 304
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