kazi
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
kazi (plural kazis)
- (historical) Alternative form of Kazi
Etymology 2
Noun
kazi (plural kazis)
- Alternative form of khazi (“toilet”)
- 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 183:
- “Go and clean the kazi now.”
Anagrams
Karelian
| North Karelian (Viena) |
kasi |
|---|---|
| South Karelian (Tver) |
kazi |
Etymology
From an East Slavic language. Cognates include dialectal Finnish kasi and Veps kaži.
Pronunciation
Noun
kazi (genitive kazin, partitive kazie, diminutive kazine)
Declension
| Tver Karelian declension of kazi (type 2/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kazi | kazit | |
| genitive | kazin | kaziloin | |
| partitive | kazie | kaziloida | |
| illative | kazih | kaziloih | |
| inessive | kazissa | kaziloissa | |
| elative | kazista | kaziloista | |
| adessive | kazilla | kaziloilla | |
| ablative | kazilda | kaziloilda | |
| translative | kaziksi | kaziloiksi | |
| essive | kazina | kaziloina | |
| comitative | kazinke | kaziloinke | |
| abessive | kazitta | kaziloitta | |
| Possessive forms of kazi | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | kazini | |
| 2nd person | kazis | |
| 3rd person | kazih | |
| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. | ||
Synonyms
- kišša (North Karelian or dialectal)
References
- A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kazi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
Mwani
Noun
kazi class 9 (plural kazi)
Swahili
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *cad-.
Pronunciation
Noun
kazi (n class, plural kazi)
Derived terms
- -fanya kazi (“to work”)
Yeyi
Noun
kazi
References
- Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)