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Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *pehmedä. Cognates include Finnish pehmeä and Estonian pehme.
Pronunciation
Adjective
pehmei (genitive pehmien, partitive pehmiedy)
- soft
- (phonology) palatalised
Derived terms
(verb):
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “pehmei”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN