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Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Uralic *üje. Cognates include Karelian yö, Ludian üö, Estonian öö, Ingrian öö, Livonian īe, Northern Sami idja, Inari Sami ijjâ, Erzya and Moksha ве (ve), Udmurt уй (uj), Komi-Permyak ой (oj), Komi-Zyrian вой (voj), Southern Mansi йӣ (jī), Hungarian éj.
Pronunciation
Noun
yö
- night
- Antonym: päivä
- yölintu ― nocturnal bird
- Yöllä on pimeää. ― It is dark at night.
Usage notes
- The concepts ilta (“evening”) and yö (“night”) are defined slightly differently in Finnish and English. yö (“night”) is generally regarded as the period of day normally devoted for sleeping (i.e. roughly the time between 10/11 p.m. and 6/7 a.m.). The time between 5/6 p.m. and 10/11 p.m. is referred to as ilta, but in English it is often called night (e.g. "I have a meeting tonight").
- If used in a compound with a day of the week, the term will refer to the night at the beginning of that day. For example, the term tiistaiyö (literally “Tuesday night”) will refer to the hours from approximately 23:00 (11 p.m.) Monday to 06:00 (6 a.m.) Tuesday, which in standard English would be referred to as Monday night (even though Tuesday technically begins during this period).
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References
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Further reading
Karelian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *üje.
Pronunciation
Noun
yö (genitive yön, partitive yötä)
- night
References
- P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 16
Livvi
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *öö. Cognates include Finnish yö and Estonian öö.
Pronunciation
Noun
yö (genitive yön, partitive yödy)
- night
Declension
References
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) “yö”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN