kehrä
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Finnish[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Finnic *kecrä, borrowed from early Indo-Iranian *ketstram (later *čatstram).[1] Cognates include Veps kezr, Northern Karelian kesrä, Estonian keder, Erzya штере (šťeŕe).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
kehrä
- (spinning) spindle
- a rotating spindle or disk in a machine
- (figurative, poetic) the sun or moon thought of as a disk that rolls along the firmament
- päivän kultainen kehrä ― the golden disk of the day (Sun)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of kehrä (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kehrä | kehrät | ||
genitive | kehrän | kehrien | ||
partitive | kehrää | kehriä | ||
illative | kehrään | kehriin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kehrä | kehrät | ||
accusative | nom. | kehrä | kehrät | |
gen. | kehrän | |||
genitive | kehrän | kehrien kehräinrare | ||
partitive | kehrää | kehriä | ||
inessive | kehrässä | kehrissä | ||
elative | kehrästä | kehristä | ||
illative | kehrään | kehriin | ||
adessive | kehrällä | kehrillä | ||
ablative | kehrältä | kehriltä | ||
allative | kehrälle | kehrille | ||
essive | kehränä | kehrinä | ||
translative | kehräksi | kehriksi | ||
abessive | kehrättä | kehrittä | ||
instructive | — | kehrin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading[edit]
- “kehrä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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