liivi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) It's been considered to originate from Proto-Baltic word ''*glivěti'' (“cover with slime”) or Proto-Germanic word *slīwa (slime). Has same origin as Estonian liiv and Finnish liiva.

liivi (genitive liivi, partitive liivit)

1. Livonian (language)
2. (in the genitive) Livonian (attributive)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• (language): liivi keel

• liivi keel
• Liivimaa
• liivlane

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːʋi/, [ˈliːʋi]
• Rhymes: -iːʋi
• Syllabification^(key): lii‧vi
• Hyphenation^(key): lii‧vi

Borrowed from Swedish liv.^[1]

liivi

1. vest, waistcoat (sleeveless garment that buttons down the front, worn over a shirt, and often as part of a suit)

   nahkaliivi ― leather vest

2. vest (protective sleeveless garment worn over outer clothing)
3. (in the plural) ellipsis of rintaliivit (“bra”)
4. (in the plural) vest (of any kind; from compounds)

• (bra): rintaliivit

• “1. liivi”, 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 1 July 2023

From Estonian liivi, from Middle Low German [Term?] (whence also German Live (“Livonian”); the -b- > -v- occurred at this stage, -b- is original and forms with -v- are mediated through Germanic),^[2] probably originally from the endonym Livonian lībõ, līb (compare also Old East Slavic либь (libĭ), Latvian lībis).

liivi

1. Livonian (language)

• liivin kieli

• “2. liivi”, 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 1 July 2023

• viili