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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *joki. Cognate with Finnish joki.
Pronunciation
Noun
jõgi (genitive jõe, partitive jõge)
- river
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jõgi”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “jõgi”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “jõgi”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- jõgi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Võro
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *joki.
Noun
jõgi (genitive jyy, partitive jõkõ)
- river
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.