tuvi

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See also: tüvi, từ vị, and tử vi

Estonian

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Kaljutuvi (Columba livia)
Tuvi leviala

Etymology

From Middle Low German dûve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ, whence also English dove and German Taube.

Dialectal variants include tui (where the v has been lost) and tuuvi, compare also Ingrian tuuvi. See also turteltuvi. First attested in 1632.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtuvi/,
  • Rhymes: -uvi
  • Hyphenation: tu‧vi

Noun

tuvi (genitive tuvi, partitive tuvi)

  1. dove, pigeon (Columba)
    parem varblane peos kui tuvi katusel ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (literally, “better a sparrow in the palm than a pigeon on the roof”)

Declension

Declension of tuvi (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tuvi tuvid
accusative nom.
gen. tuvi
genitive tuvide
partitive tuvi tuvisid
illative tuvisse tuvidesse
inessive tuvis tuvides
elative tuvist tuvidest
allative tuvile tuvidele
adessive tuvil tuvidel
ablative tuvilt tuvidelt
translative tuviks tuvideks
terminative tuvini tuvideni
essive tuvina tuvidena
abessive tuvita tuvideta
comitative tuviga tuvidega

Derived terms

Compounds

References

  • tuvi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “tuvi”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • Jüri Viikberg (2016) “tuvi”, in Alamsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [Low German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)

Latvian

Adjective

tuvi

  1. nominative plural masculine of tuvs
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