käsi

From Proto-Finnic *käci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käte. Cognate with Finnish käsi, Erzya кедь (keď) and Hungarian kéz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæsʲi]

käsi (genitive käe, partitive kätt)

1. hand
2. arm

• (part of the arm below the wrist): käbar (informal), kätu (childish);

• (palm of the hand): kämmal (formal), käpp (figurative), kännu (childish), pats (childish);

• (the upper limb of a human): ülajäse (formal);

• (eating hand): söömakäsi (informal), aadamakahvel (figurative).

• käsitlema
• käekell
• käekott
• käsipuu
• käsivars

From Proto-Finnic *käci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käte.^[1] Cognate with Estonian käsi, Erzya кедь (keď) and Hungarian kéz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈk̟æs̠i]
• Rhymes: -æsi
• Syllabification^(key): kä‧si
• Hyphenation^(key): kä‧si

käsi

1. hand, arm; an upper limb of a human or certain animals
2. (card games) hand (cards held by a player)

käsi refers variously to the hand, arm or both. If context is required (such as in anatomy), käsivarsi is used for "arm" and käsi (or less commonly käsiterä) for "hand".

The genitive plural kätten is still rather common.

• (hand, arm):
  • olkavarsi (from shoulder to elbow)
  • kyynärvarsi (from elbow to wrist)
  • kämmen, koura (from wrist to fingers)

• “käsi”, 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

• -ksiä, iskä

From Proto-Finnic *käci, from Proto-Uralic *käte. Cognates include Finnish käsi and Estonian käsi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæs̠i]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæʒ̥i]
• Rhymes: -æsi
• Hyphenation: kä‧si

käsi

1. hand, arm
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 22:

     Käet pese hyväst siä.

     Wash [your] hands well.

2. palm (unit of measure)

• (hand, arm): kännö (childish)

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “касси”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 236
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 39

From Proto-Finnic *käci. Cognates include Finnish käsi and Veps käzi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæsʲi/
• Hyphenation: kä‧si

käsi (genitive kiän, partitive kättä)

1. (North Karelian) hand, arm

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “käsi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *käci.

käsi (genitive käe, partitive kätt)

1. arm
2. hand