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Livvi
Etymology
From pehmei (“soft”) + -ndiä. Akin to Finnish pehmentää.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpehmendʲiæ̯/
- Hyphenation: peh‧men‧diä
Verb
pehmendiä
- (transitive) to soften
- (phonology, transitive) to palatalise
Derived terms
(nouns):
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “pehmendiä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN