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Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old East Slavic верѣꙗ (verěja) (compare e.g. Russian верея (vereja)).
With a different suffix, related to Finnish veräjä.
Noun
värav (genitive värava, partitive väravat)
- gate
- goal
Declension
Further reading
- “värav”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
- “värav”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “värav”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- värav in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)