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Finnish
Etymology
A dialectal form of the instructive singular of melkeä. Compare melkein.
Pronunciation
Adverb
melkeen
- (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of melkein.
Ingrian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from, or alternatively akin to, Finnish melkein, melkeen.
Pronunciation
Adverb
melkeen
- almost
1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 16:Sentää, ku neet sanat saotaa melkeen yhel viisii i Soikkolaas i Laukaal […]- Because these words are pronounced in almost the same way in Soikkola and Ala-Laukaa
1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:Jo melkeen kaik kasvot - puut, pehot ja heinät kukkivat, antoivat seemenet, a seemenist tulovaal vootta ilmahtuut uuvvet, nooret kasvot.- Almost all plants - trees, shrubs and grasses blossomed, gave seeds, and next year from the seeds new, young plants will appear.
- approximately
1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:Mittaisivat mitälee plaanua mööt, reknaisiit ja sanoivat, etti linnaa saa ono neljä kilometraa i yli tunnin, melkeen, möö leenemmä kois.- They measured something along the map, counted and said, that it's four kilometers to the city and in an hour, approximately, we would be home.
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References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 304