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häntä

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See also: hanta and hàntǎ

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhæntæ/, [ˈhæn̪t̪æ]
  • Rhymes: -æntæ
  • Syllabification(key): hän‧tä
  • Hyphenation(key): hän‧tä

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Finnic *häntä.

Noun

häntä

  1. a narrow tail (e.g., of most mammals)
    Near-synonyms: pyrstö (wide tail (of birds or marine animals)), saparo (pig tail)
    Koiralla on häntä, mutta linnulla ei.
    Dogs have a [narrow] tail, but birds do not.
  2. (typography) ogonek
  3. (colloquial, dialectal) bottom, rear; genitalia, penis or vulva (especially in sayings)
Declension
More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
Derived terms
compounds

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronoun

häntä

  1. partitive singular of hän

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Ingrian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *häntä. Cognates include Finnish häntä and Estonian händ.

Pronunciation

Noun

häntä

  1. tail
Declension
More information Declension of (type 3/koira, nt-nn gradation), singular ...
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

häntä

  1. partitive of hää

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 98
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, pages 80-84
  • Arvo Laanest (1997), Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 41
  • Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 71
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