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Finnish
Pronunciation
Numeral
yks
- (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of yksi (“one”)
Determiner
yks
- (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of yksi (“one”)
Declension
The declension presented in the table below is only one possibility. Colloquial Finnish declension is not standardized and depends on the region and the speaker. Different variations of the same form may be used by the same speaker, even within the same sentence.
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Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *ükci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ükte. Cognates include Finnish yksi and Estonian üks.
Pronunciation
Numeral
yks
- one
1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 31:Yks, kaks, kolt.- One, two, three.
Pronoun
yks
- (in the singular) the one
- (in the plural) some
1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 11:Yksiil ono sooja șuuba, toiset syvviis norriis peittiisivät.- Some have a warm fur, others hid in deep burrows.
Determiner
yks
- same
1936, V. I. Junus, P. L. Maksimov, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:Yhet lapset ollaa kois.- The same children are home.
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References
- Fedor Tumansky (1790) “юксъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 703
- V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 689
- Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 76