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Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *liiva, possibly from a Baltic language. Cognate with Finnish liiva, Ingrian liiva and Votic liivõ, possibly also Latvian glīve, Lithuanian glyvas.
Pronunciation
Noun
liiv (genitive liiva, partitive liiva)
- sand
Inflection
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Further reading
- “liiv”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “liiv”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “liiv”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- liiv in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)