hieno

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• IPA^(key): /hiˈeno/
• Rhymes: -eno
• Hyphenation: hi‧e‧no

hieno (accusative singular hienon, plural hienoj, accusative plural hienojn)

1. hyena

From Proto-Finnic *hëëno. Cognates include Karelian hieno and Veps hen, as well as probably Estonian hõõnukene.

The semantic shift from "fine, slender, fine-grained" to "fine, refined, elegant" is common across European languages and probably represents foreign influence in Finnish.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈhie̯no/, [ˈhie̞̯no̞]
• Rhymes: -ieno
• Syllabification^(key): hie‧no
• Hyphenation^(key): hie‧no

hieno (comparative hienompi, superlative hienoin)

1. fine (particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth)
2. fine (consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces)

   Hienoa tomua nostaen ajoi henkilöauto hitaasti ohi ja Asta näki sisällä valkoisen pöyhkeän pilven.

   Raising a fine dust, the passage car drove slowly by and Asta saw inside a cocky yellow cloud.

3. good-looking, fine

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hieno

4. fine (of superior quality); select; elegant, fancy, posh
5. great, wonderful

   hieno saavutus ― great achievement

• “hieno”, 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 2 July 2023

• Heino, hioen, hione, oheni

• IPA^(key): /ˈxjɛ.nɔ/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɔ
• Syllabification: hie‧no

hieno f

1. vocative singular of hiena

• IPA^(key): [hiˈeno]

hieno f

1. vocative singular of hienă