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Karelian
Regional variants of mehiläini
North Karelian (Viena)
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mehiläini
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South Karelian (Tver)
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mehliehäne
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Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *mehiläinen. Cognates include Finnish mehiläinen and Ingrian mehiläin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmehiˌlʲæi̯nʲi/
- Hyphenation: me‧hi‧läi‧ni
Noun
mehiläini (genitive mehiläisen, partitive mehiläistä)
- (North Karelian) bee
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
References
- P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 104