risti

Derived from rist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisːʲti/

risti (not comparable)

1. crosswise
2. perpendicular, at a right angle

Derived from the genitive of rist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈristi/

risti (genitive risti, partitive ristit)

1. (card games) clubs

• IPA^(key): /ˈristi/, [ˈris̠ti]
• Rhymes: -isti
• Syllabification^(key): ris‧ti
• Hyphenation^(key): ris‧ti

Borrowed from Old East Slavic крьстъ (krĭstŭ, “cross”).

risti

1. cross (shape)
   1. (Christianity) cross, crucifix

      Synonym: krusifiksi

   2. cross (execution device)

      Synonym: ristinpuu

   3. (typography) dagger (†)
2. (card games) clubs, club
3. (music, informal) sharp (symbol ♯ in notation)

   Synonyms: ylennysmerkki, ylennys (informal), korotusmerkki (rare)

4. (anatomy) ellipsis of ristiselkä (“small of the back”, of animals)

risti typically refers to a horizontal cross (🞣). For the tilted symbol (🞪), see rasti and its synonyms.

• risteys

• “risti”, 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

risti

1. inflection of ristiä:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Kallio, Petri (2006). On the Earliest Slavic Loanwords in Finnic. In Slavica Helsingiensia 27. Helsinki. →ISBN.

• ritsi

From Old East Slavic крьстъ (krĭstŭ), from Proto-Slavic *krьstъ. Cognates include Finnish risti and Estonian rist.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈristi/, [ˈris̠tʲ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈristi/, [ˈriʃti]
• Rhymes: -istʲ, -isti
• Hyphenation: ris‧ti

risti

1. cross
2. (card games) clubs

• 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 480

Ultimately from Old East Slavic крьстъ (krĭstŭ). Cognates include Finnish risti and Estonian rist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisʲtʲi/
• Hyphenation: ris‧ti

risti (genitive rissin, partitive ristie)

1. cross

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ris't'i”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “крест”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Of uncertain origin, with two competing theories:^[1]

• From Proto-Indo-European *writ-e-ti (“to twist, roll up”), and related to riẽsti (“to bend, curve, warp”). This is favored by Derksen.^[2]
• Derived from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll, run”), see also ratas (“wheel”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrátʰas (“chariot”). This is favored by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov.^[3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrʲɪsʲtʲɪ]

ri̇̀sti (third-person present tense ri̇̀ta, third-person past tense ri̇̀to) ^[4]

1. (transitive) to roll

   akmenį risti^[4] - to roll a stone

2. (transitive) to overthrow

• (to turn over): ridenti, ritinti
• (to overthrow): versti