tervis

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Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tervehüc.

Noun

tervis (genitive tervise, partitive tervist)

  1. health

Inflection

Declension of tervis (ÕS type 9/katus, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tervis tervised
accusative nom.
gen. tervise
genitive terviste
partitive tervist terviseid
illative tervisesse tervistesse
terviseisse
inessive tervises tervistes
terviseis
elative tervisest tervistest
terviseist
allative tervisele tervistele
terviseile
adessive tervisel tervistel
terviseil
ablative terviselt tervistelt
terviseilt
translative terviseks tervisteks
terviseiks
terminative terviseni tervisteni
essive tervisena tervistena
abessive terviseta tervisteta
comitative tervisega tervistega

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tervis”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • tervis”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • tervis”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • tervis in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)