kežä

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Karelian

Regional variants of kežä
North Karelian
(Viena)
kešä
South Karelian
(Tver)
kežä
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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kesä. Cognates include Finnish kesä and Veps keza.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeʒæ/
  • Hyphenation: ke‧žä

Noun

kežä (genitive kežän, partitive kežiä, diminutive kežäne)

  1. (South Karelian) summer

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of kežä (type 5/koira no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kežä kežät
genitive kežän kežin
partitive kežiä kežie
illative kežäh kežih
inessive kežäššä kežissä
elative kežäštä kežistä
adessive kežällä kežillä
ablative kežäldä kežildä
translative kežäkši kežiksi
essive kežänä kežinä
comitative kežänke kežinke
abessive kežättä kežittä
Possessive forms of kežä
1st person kežäni
2nd person kežäš
3rd person kežäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms

References

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