keppi

keppi

1. partitive singular of kepp
2. illative singular of kepp

Borrowed from Swedish käpp.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkepːi/,
• Rhymes: -epːi
• Hyphenation^(key): kep‧pi

keppi

1. stick, cane (long piece of wood)

   Near-synonyms: sauva, tikku

   kävelykeppi ― walking cane / walking stick

2. (colloquial) guitar

keppi is used for long and relatively sturdy pieces of wood. tikku is used for smaller sticks. A rule of thumb is that if a wooden stick could be used as a blunt weapon, it is a keppi and otherwise a tikku.

• “keppi”, 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 2023-07-02

Ultimately from Swedish käpp. Cognates include Finnish keppi and Estonian kepp.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkepːi/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkepːi/,
• Rhymes: -epʲː, -epːi
• Hyphenation: kep‧pi

keppi

1. stick, cane
   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Hää otti kepin kättee ja läksi mänemää uulitsaa mööt.

     He took a stick into his hand and left to go along the street.

• puikko

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кеппи”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 683
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 154

Borrowed from Finnish keppi.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkepːi/,
• Rhymes: -epːi
• Hyphenation: kep‧pi

keppi

1. stick, cane, staff

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “keppi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn