viisi

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *viici, from Proto-Uralic *witte. Cognates include Estonian viis, Erzya вете (veťe), Northern Khanty вет (wjet), Northern Mansi ат (at), Hungarian öt, and Nganasan бииʔ (bīʔ, “ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/,

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːsi
• Syllabification^(key): vii‧si

Numeral

viisi

1. five

Usage notes

• See Appendix:Finnish numbers.

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• vii

Further reading

• “1. viisi”, 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 2024-01-27

Ingrian

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Low German wis, possibly via Estonian viis.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/,
• Rhymes: -iːsʲ, -iːsi
• Hyphenation: vii‧si
• Homophone: viis

Noun

viisi (partitive viittä, illative viisii)

1. way, manner

   Läätä ihmisen viittä. ― To talk like a human. (literally, “To talk a human's way.”)

   • 2008, “Läkkäämmä omal viisii [We're speaking own way]”, in Inkeri‎, volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 12:

     Möö veel läkkäämmä omal viisii, a olliit mokkomat akat, miä veel muissan, miä olin pikkutyttö, höö vennäheks evät mahtanehet läätä.

     We still speak in our own way, but there were such old women, I still remember, I was a little girl, they couldn't speak Russian.

Usage notes

• Almost exclusively used in the partitive and illative singular.
• Viisi is often used with a determiner in the allative. In this case, the noun's case doesn't match with the determiner's:

  yhel / samal viittä ― the same way

  toiseel viisii ― another way

  mil viittä? ― in what way?

  monel viisii ― in many ways

  sil viisii ― as such; in this way

• When used with an adjective, however, the adjective does take over the case of the noun:

  vanhaa viittä ― the old way

See also

• verta

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 674

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *viici, from Proto-Uralic *witte. Cognates include Finnish viisi and Estonian viis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːsi/

Numeral

viisi

1. five

Declension

References

• P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52

Votic

Etymology 1

From the illative singular of a noun *viis, from Estonian viis. Cognate with Ingrian viisii.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈviːsiː/,
• Rhymes: -iːsiː
• Hyphenation: vii‧si

Postposition

viisi

1. (genitive + ~) in the way or manner of, like

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “viisii”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈviːsi/,
• Rhymes: -iːsi
• Hyphenation: vii‧si

Numeral

viisi

1. Alternative form of viis