kaniini
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Finnish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Swedish kanin, from Middle Low German, from Old French, from Latin cunīculus.
Noun
kaniini
- European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus
- Synonym: villikaniini
- (broadly) rabbit (not as a zoological term)
Declension
| Inflection of kaniini (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kaniini | kaniinit | |
| genitive | kaniinin | kaniinien kaniineiden kaniineitten | |
| partitive | kaniinia | kaniineita kaniineja | |
| illative | kaniiniin | kaniineihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kaniini | kaniinit | |
| accusative | nom. | kaniini | kaniinit |
| gen. | kaniinin | ||
| genitive | kaniinin | kaniinien kaniineiden kaniineitten | |
| partitive | kaniinia | kaniineita kaniineja | |
| inessive | kaniinissa | kaniineissa | |
| elative | kaniinista | kaniineista | |
| illative | kaniiniin | kaniineihin | |
| adessive | kaniinilla | kaniineilla | |
| ablative | kaniinilta | kaniineilta | |
| allative | kaniinille | kaniineille | |
| essive | kaniinina | kaniineina | |
| translative | kaniiniksi | kaniineiksi | |
| abessive | kaniinitta | kaniineitta | |
| instructive | — | kaniinein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
compounds
- aavikkokaniini
- amerikankaniini
- angorakaniini
- appalakkienkaniini
- bunoronkaniini
- bunyorokaniini
- bunyoronkaniini
- isokalliokaniini
- jamesoninkalliokaniini
- kalliokaniini
- kalliopunakaniini
- kaniinirotta
- kaniinirotu
- karhokaniini
- kivikkopunakaniini
- koekaniini
- kosteikkokaniini
- kääpiökaniini
- marunakaniini
- meksikonkaniini
- metsäkaniini
- omiltemenkaniini
- pensaskaniini
- pikkukaniini
- pumpulihäntäkaniini
- punakaniini
- pussikaniini
- riukiunkaniini
- riukiusaartenkaniini
- rämekaniini
- saarikaniini
- sanjosesaarenkaniini
- smithinkalliokaniini
- sumatrankaniini
- suokaniini
- talamancankaniini
- tresmariasinkaniini
- tresmariassaarenkaniini
- tulivuorikaniini
- ugandankaniini
- uudenenglanninkaniini
- villikaniini
- vuohikaniini
- vuorikaniini
- zulupunakaniini
Descendants
Further reading
- “kaniini”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
Noun
kaniini
- first-person singular possessive form of illative singular of kani
Karelian
| North Karelian (Viena) |
kaniini |
|---|---|
| South Karelian (Tver) |
— |
Etymology
Borrowed from Finnish kaniini.
Pronunciation
Noun
kaniini (genitive kaniinin, partitive kaniinie)
Declension
| Viena Karelian declension of kaniini (type 2/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kaniini | kaniinit | |
| genitive | kaniinin | kaniinien | |
| partitive | kaniinie | kaniinija | |
| illative | kaniinih | kaniiniloih | |
| inessive | kaniinissa | kaniiniloissa | |
| elative | kaniinista | kaniiniloista | |
| adessive | kaniinilla | kaniiniloilla | |
| ablative | kaniinilta | kaniiniloilta | |
| translative | kaniiniksi | kaniiniloiksi | |
| essive | kaniinina | kaniiniloina | |
| comitative | — | kaniiniloineh | |
| abessive | kaniinitta | kaniiniloitta | |
| Possessive forms of kaniini | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | kaniinini | |
| 2nd person | kaniinis | |
| 3rd person | kaniinih | |
| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. | ||
Synonyms
References
- P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “кролик”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN