pimie

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Karelian

Regional variants of pimie
North Karelian
(Viena)
pimie
South Karelian
(Tver)
pimie

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pimedä. Cognates include Finnish pimeä and Estonian pime.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpimie̯/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧mie

Noun

pimie (genitive pimien, partitive pimietäpimiedä)

  1. darkness

Adjective

pimie (genitive pimien, partitive pimietäpimiedä, comparative pimiempipimiembi, superlative pimein)

  1. dark

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of pimie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pimie pimiet
genitive pimien pimeijen
partitive pimietä pimeitä
illative pimieh pimeih
inessive pimieššä pimeissä
elative pimieštä pimeistä
adessive pimiellä pimeillä
ablative pimieltä pimeiltä
translative pimiekši pimeiksi
essive pimienä pimeinä
comitative pimeineh
abessive pimiettä pimeittä
Tver Karelian declension of pimie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pimie pimiet
genitive pimien pimein
partitive pimiedä pimeidä
illative pimieh pimeih
inessive pimieššä pimeissä
elative pimieštä pimeistä
adessive pimiellä pimeillä
ablative pimieldä pimeildä
translative pimiekši pimeiksi
essive pimienä pimeinä
comitative pimienke pimeinke
abessive pimiettä pimeittä
Possessive forms of pimie
1st person pimieni
2nd person pimieš
3rd person pimieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Derived terms

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “pimie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN