kynkä

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Karelian

Regional variants of kynkä
North Karelian
(Viena)
kynkä
South Karelian
(Tver)
kyngä

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic . Cognates include Finnish kyynärä and Estonian küünar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkyŋkæ/
  • Hyphenation: kyn‧kä

Noun

kynkä (genitive kynkän, partitive kynkyä)

  1. (North Karelian) elbow

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of kynkä (type 5/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kynkä kynkät
genitive kynkän kynkien
partitive kynkyä kynkie
illative kynkäh kynkih
inessive kynkäššä kynkissä
elative kynkäštä kynkistä
adessive kynkällä kynkillä
ablative kynkältä kynkiltä
translative kynkäkši kynkiksi
essive kynkänä kynkinä
comitative kynkineh
abessive kynkättä kynkittä
Possessive forms of kynkä
1st person kynkäni
2nd person kynkäš
3rd person kynkäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN