jänisʹ

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Karelian

Regional variants of jänisʹ
North Karelian
(Viena) 		jänis
South Karelian
(Tver) 		jänisʹ
(dialectal) jänis

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jänis. Cognates include Finnish jänis and Veps jäniš.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjænʲisʲ/
  • Hyphenation: jä‧nisʹ

Noun

jänisʹ (genitive jäniksen, partitive jänisʹtä)

  1. (South Karelian) hare

Declension

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Possessive forms of jänisʹ
1st person jänikseni
2nd person jänikseš
3rd person jänikseh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “jänisʹ”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
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