torvi

From Proto-Finnic *torvi (compare Estonian tõri, Karelian torvi, Veps torv), from earlier *towri, borrowed from Proto-Baltic (compare Latvian taure (“bugle”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *táwros. In Balto-Finnic, a metathesis *wr > *rw (> *rv) has occurred (compare järvi, karva). Doublet of Taurus, tarvas, and teuras.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtorʋi/,
• Rhymes: -orʋi
• Hyphenation^(key): tor‧vi

torvi

1. horn (any of several musical wind instruments, especially one used to signal people or animals)
   1. (informal, loosely) horn (generally, any brass wind instrument)

      Synonyms: vaski, vaskisoitin

2. anything with a tapered shape resembling a horn; a tube, pipe, cone, funnel, etc.

   Synonyms: putki, tuutti, suppilo

   huulet torvella ― with lips pursed/puckered (literally, “ lips in a tube”)

3. horn (conical device used to direct waves)
4. horn (loud alarm, especially on a motor vehicle)
5. (colloquial) fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tyhmä

• “torvi”, 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 2023-07-03

• rivot

• IPA^(key): /ˈtor.vi/
• Rhymes: -orvi
• Hyphenation: tór‧vi

torvi

1. masculine plural of torvo

• trovi

torvi

1. tube

torvī

1. inflection of torvus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular