päivä

From Proto-Finnic *päivä (“sun, day”), from Proto-Uralic *päjwä (“sun”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæi̯ʋæ/,
• Rhymes: -æiʋæ
• Hyphenation^(key): päi‧vä

päivä

1. day (period between sunrise and sunset)

   Siitä on nyt vuoden päivät.

   It was about one year ago.

2. day (from midnight to midnight)
3. day (period of 24 hours)

   Synonym: vuorokausi

4. day (the part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.)
5. (poetic, archaic) the sun

   Synonym: aurinko

   Päivä paistaa. ― The sun is shining.

   Päivä painuu mailleen. ― The sun sets.

6. event, occasion, symposium, forum, fair, etc. (in the singular only if the event lasts one day, otherwise in the plural)

   vanhan kirjallisuuden päivät ― antiquarian book fair

   tieteen päivät ― (biennial) science forum

• (day): Singular essive is particularly used when talking about what happened on some day: sinä päivänä (“on that day”)

• yö

• Kven: päivä
• Meänkieli: päivä

• “päivä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *päivä (“sun, day”). Cognates include Finnish päivä and Estonian päev.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpæi̯ʋæ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpæi̯ʋæ/,
• Rhymes: -æi̯ʋ, -æi̯ʋæ
• Hyphenation: päi‧vä

päivä

1. day
2. afternoon

   kaks tunnia päivää ― two p.m. (literally, “two hours of the afternoon”)

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9:

     A neljä tunnia päivää jo jällee pimettellöö.

     And at four hours afternoon it's already getting dark again.

3. (obsolete or folk poetic or in compounds) Synonym of päivyt (“Sun”)
   • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Natelia Suijalta, “1150. Soikkola, Ruutsia, III11”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 14-15:

     Noisi päivän etsijäksi // Ja kuun tähystäjäksi,

     She became the searcher of the sun // And the observer of the moon,

The irregular essive singular päännä, pään is also occasionally used.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “пейя”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 701
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 450
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 74

From Proto-Finnic *päivä, from Proto-Uralic *päjwä.

päivä (genitive , partitive )

1. day (period between sunrise and sunset)
2. day (period of 24 hours)

From Finnish päivä (“day”), from Proto-Finnic *päivä (“sun, day”), from Proto-Uralic *päjwä (“warmth; sun; fire”), of both *päje and *-wä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæi̯ʋæ/

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päivä (genitive päivän, partitive päivää)

1. a day (the time period between sunrise and sunset)
2. a day (time from midnight to midnight)

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• janturi, vuorokausi (“24 hour day”)

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From Finnish päivä, from Proto-Finnic *päivä, from Proto-Uralic *päjwä.

päivä

1. A day (period between sunrise and sunset)
2. A day (from midnight to midnight)
3. A day (period of 24 hours)

   Synonym: päivänni