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Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *käntädäk. Cognates include Finnish kääntää and Estonian käänata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkiæ̯ndiæ̯/
- Hyphenation: kiän‧diä
Verb
kiändiä
- (transitive) to turn
- (transitive) to bend
- (transitive, + translative) to translate
- Minä kiännän kniigua liivekse. ― I am translating the book into Livvi.
Derived terms
(noun):
References
- N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 11
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 113