kyy
Appearance
Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]kyy
See also
[edit]Finnish
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *küü (compare Estonian küü), possibly from Proto-Uralic *kije (compare Erzya гуй (guj), Moksha куй (kuj), Hungarian kígyó), or alternatively an old clipping for kyykäärme (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kyy
- common European adder (Vipera berus, the only natural species of viper in Finland)
- viper (Viperidae)
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of kyy (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | kyy | kyyt | |
| genitive | kyyn | kyiden kyitten | |
| partitive | kyytä | kyitä | |
| illative | kyyhyn | kyihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kyy | kyyt | |
| accusative | nom. | kyy | kyyt |
| gen. | kyyn | ||
| genitive | kyyn | kyiden kyitten | |
| partitive | kyytä | kyitä | |
| inessive | kyyssä | kyissä | |
| elative | kyystä | kyistä | |
| illative | kyyhyn | kyihin | |
| adessive | kyyllä | kyillä | |
| ablative | kyyltä | kyiltä | |
| allative | kyylle | kyille | |
| essive | kyynä | kyinä | |
| translative | kyyksi | kyiksi | |
| abessive | kyyttä | kyittä | |
| instructive | — | kyin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kyy”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023
Tashelhit
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Berber *kayy[1] or *ḱăkk (“thou”).
Cognate with Tuareg kăy(y) (“thou”), Ghadames šăgg (“thou”), Zenaga kǝk(k) (“thou”), Awjila ku (“thou”), Sokna šik (“thou”), Nefusa šək (“thou”), and Siwi šəkk (“thou”), and Proto-Chadic, whence Hausa kai (“thou”).
Pronoun
[edit]kyy m (feminine kmm, Tifinagh spelling ⴽⵢⵢ, Arabic spelling كيّ)
- you (second-person masculine singular free pronoun)
- كيّ كا ف تكّلغ، آ يلاهي.
- kyy ka f tkklġ, a Ylahi .
- it is only on You that I rely, o Lord.
See also
[edit]| Free pronouns | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||
| 1st person | nkk | nkkʷni | ||
| 2nd person | m | kyy | kʷnni | |
| f | kmm | kʷnnimti | ||
| 3rd person | m | ntta | nttni | |
| f | nttat | nttnti | ||
References
[edit]- ^ * Blažek, Václav (2019). "The Afroasiatic Personal Pronouns: A Textbook Example of a Suppletive Paradigm". In Kim, Ronald I. (ed.). Diachronic Perspectives of Suppletion. Baar-Verlag, pages 242–243
- Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 F–L (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, , →ISBN, page 1262
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual symbols
- ISO 639-3
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Uralic
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/yː
- Rhymes:Finnish/yː/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish maa-type nominals
- fi:Vipers
- Tashelhit terms inherited from Proto-Berber
- Tashelhit terms derived from Proto-Berber
- Tashelhit lemmas
- Tashelhit pronouns
- Tashelhit terms with usage examples