mehaanik

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Estonian

Etymology

Back-formation from mehaanika.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /meˈhɑˑnik/,
  • Rhymes: -ɑˑnik
  • Hyphenation: me‧haa‧nik

Noun

mehaanik (genitive mehaaniku, partitive mehaanikut)

  1. mechanic, engineer (a skilled worker who builds, maintains and repairs machinery and equipment)

Usage notes

The exceptional spelling of the words mehaanika, mehaanik, mehaaniline with one h instead of two, as Estonians often (incorrectly) spell them, follows Elmar Muuk's suggestion in the 1920s to treat them as loan words, not foreign words. Since 1953, variants with one or two h's have been allowed, since 2006, variants with one h have been preferred.

Declension

Declension of mehaanik (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mehaanik mehaanikud
accusative nom.
gen. mehaaniku
genitive mehaanikute
partitive mehaanikut mehaanikuid
illative mehaanikusse mehaanikutesse
mehaanikuisse
inessive mehaanikus mehaanikutes
mehaanikuis
elative mehaanikust mehaanikutest
mehaanikuist
allative mehaanikule mehaanikutele
mehaanikuile
adessive mehaanikul mehaanikutel
mehaanikuil
ablative mehaanikult mehaanikutelt
mehaanikuilt
translative mehaanikuks mehaanikuteks
mehaanikuiks
terminative mehaanikuni mehaanikuteni
essive mehaanikuna mehaanikutena
abessive mehaanikuta mehaanikuteta
comitative mehaanikuga mehaanikutega

Compounds

References

  • mehaanik in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “mehaanik”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “mehaanik”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
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