syvvä

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *söödäk. Cognates include Finnish syödä and Estonian sööda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsʲyʋːæ/
  • Hyphenation: syv‧vä
  • Rhymes: -yʋːæ

Verb

syvvä

  1. (transitive) to eat
  2. (intransitive) to eat
  3. (transitive, of fish) to bite on
    Kala syöy čyötön. ― The fish bites on the worm.
  4. (transitive, of insects) to bite
    Pinʹoi syi minun. ― The mosquito bit me.

References

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “syvvä”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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