pakkani

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Karelian

Regional variants of pakkani
North Karelian
(Viena)
pakkani
South Karelian
(Tver)
pakkane

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pakkainën. Cognates include Finnish pakkanen and Veps pakaine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑkːɑnʲi/
  • Hyphenation: pak‧ka‧ni

Noun

pakkani (genitive pakkaisen, partitive pakkaista)

  1. (North Karelian) frost

Declension

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Derived terms

References

  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “pakkani”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN