yö

From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Uralic *üje. Cognates include Karelian yö, Ludian üö, Estonian öö, Ingrian öö, Livonian īe, Northern Sami idja, Inari Sami ijjâ, Erzya and Moksha ве (ve), Udmurt уй (uj), Komi-Permyak ой (oj), Komi-Zyrian вой (voj), Southern Mansi йӣ (jī), Hungarian éj.

• IPA^(key): /ˈyø̯/, [ˈyø̞̯]
• Rhymes: -yø
• Syllabification^(key): yö
• Hyphenation^(key): yö

yö

1. night

   Antonym: päivä

   yölintu ― nocturnal bird

   keskellä yötä ― in the middle of the night

   Yöllä on pimeää. ― It is dark at night.

   Suomessa kesäyöt ovat valoisia, eikä kesällä napapiirin pohjoispuolella ole yöstä tietoakaan.

   Summer nights are light in Finland, and during summers, places north of the Arctic Circle do not even have nights.

• The concepts ilta (“evening”) and yö (“night”) are defined slightly differently in Finnish and English. yö (“night”) is generally regarded as the period of day normally devoted for sleeping (i.e. roughly the time between 10/11 p.m. and 6/7 a.m.). The time between 5/6 p.m. and 10/11 p.m. is referred to as ilta, but in English it is often called night (e.g. "I have a meeting tonight").
• If used in a compound with a day of the week, the term will refer to the night at the beginning of that day. For example, the term tiistaiyö (literally “Tuesday night”) will refer to the hours from approximately 23:00 (11 p.m.) Monday to 06:00 (6 a.m.) Tuesday, which in standard English would be referred to as Monday night (even though Tuesday technically begins during this period).
• As with all words for times of day (except päivä) in Finnish, the adessive case (yöllä) is normally used when talking about events that will take place or took place at night. The essive case (yönä) is used instead, however, if there is a determiner like tämä (“this”), viime (“last”) or ensi (“next”); if the day is specified otherwise, either the adessive or essive case can be used. As usual, other uses, e.g. when postponing events (allative) or with asti (“until”) (illative), may use other locative cases.

• “yö”, 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 4 July 2023

From Proto-Finnic *öö, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *üje.

• IPA^(key): /ˈyø̯/

yö (genitive yön, partitive yötä)

1. night

• P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 16

From Proto-Finnic *öö. Cognates include Finnish yö and Estonian öö.

• IPA^(key): /ˈyø̯/
• Hyphenation: yö
• Rhymes: -yø̯

yö (genitive yön, partitive yödy)

1. night

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