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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *käpü. Cognate with Finnish käpy and Votic tšäpü.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkæb̥i/,
- Rhymes: -æbi
- Hyphenation: kä‧bi
Noun
käbi (genitive käbi, partitive käbi)
- cone (an elongated scaly formation developed from the female flowers of conifers, in which the seeds are located)
Declension
References
- käbi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “käbi”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009