mehiläine

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Livvi[edit]

Mehiläine.

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *mehiläinen. Cognates include Finnish mehiläinen and Karelian mehiläini.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmehilæi̯ne/
  • Hyphenation: me‧hi‧läi‧ne

Noun[edit]

mehiläine (genitive mehiläizen, partitive mehiläisty)

  1. wild bee

References[edit]

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 162