tuvi

See also: tüvi and tyvi

Estonian

Noun

tuvi (genitive tuvi, partitive tuvi)

1. dove, pigeon (taxonomic family: Columbidae)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• kaljutuvi (“rock dove (the preferred IOC term for Columba livia), rock pigeon (ambiguous, multiple species have this common name)”)
• kirjatuvi (“homing pigeon, cf. German Low German: Breefduuv, German: Brieftaube, both meaning lit. “letter pigeon””)
• kodutuvi
• tuvimaja

Further reading

• “tuvi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

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Latvian

Adjective

tuvi

1. (deprecated template usage) nominative plural masculine form of tuvs