hyö

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word hyö. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word hyö, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say hyö in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word hyö you have here. The definition of the word hyö will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofhyö, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: hyo, hyō, and hyo-

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *höö, variant of *hek.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hyö (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)

  1. (personal) they (only of people)

Inflection

Inflected forms other than the nominative are identical with or similar to those of he.

Synonyms

  • he (standard Finnish)

Karelian

Regional variants of hyö
North Karelian
(Viena)
hyö
South Karelian
(Tver)
hyö

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *höö. Cognates include dialectal Finnish hyö and Ingrian höö.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhyø̯/
  • Hyphenation: hyö

Pronoun

hyö

  1. they (animate)
  2. (colloquial) they (inanimate)

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of hyö (irregular)
singular plural
nominative hiän hyö
genitive hänen heijän, hiän
accusative hänet heijät, hiät
partitive händä heitä
illative häneh heih
inessive häneššä heissä
elative häneštä heistä
adessive hänellä heilä
ablative häneltä heiltä
translative häneksi heiksi
essive hänenä heinä
comitative
abessive
Tver Karelian declension of hyö (irregular)
singular plural
nominative hiän hyö
genitive hänen hiän
accusative hänet hiät
partitive händä heidä
illative häneh heih
inessive häneššä heissä
elative häneštä heistä
adessive hänellä heilä
ablative häneldä heildä
translative häneksi heiksi
essive hänenä heinä
comitative hänenke heinke
abessive hänettä heittä

See also

Karelian personal pronouns
first second third
singular mie šie hiän
plural myö työ hyö

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “hüö”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “они”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *höö. Cognates include Karelian hyö and Ingrian höö.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hyö

  1. they

Declension

This personal pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

See also

References

  • N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 10
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 68
  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “hyö”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN