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See also: juuret

Estonian

Noun

juuri

  1. partitive plural of juur

Finnish

Etymology 1

    From Proto-Finnic *juuri, from Proto-Finno-Permic *jowre. Cognates include Erzya юр (jur).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈjuːri/, [ˈjuːri]
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    • Rhymes: -uːri
    • Syllabification(key): juu‧ri
    • Hyphenation(key): juu‧ri

    Noun

    juuri

    1. root (of a plant, hair, tooth, etc.)
    2. foot, base (base or bottom of anything; when in the locative cases, often the area right next to that base or bottom, such as the foot of a mountain)
    3. (figuratively) cause, origin, tradition
      Synonyms: syy, lähde, alkuperä
    4. ellipsis of taikinajuuri (“starter dough”)
    5. (mathematics) root (inverse of a power, e.g. square root)
    6. (mathematical analysis) zero, root (of a function)
      Synonym: nollakohta
    7. (linguistics) root, word root
    Declension
    More information nominative, genitive ...
    More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...
    Derived terms
    compounds

    Further reading

    Etymology 2

      juuri (“root”) +‎ -i (i-lative singular); literally, “to the root”

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈjuːri/, [ˈjuːri]
      • Rhymes: -uːri
      • Syllabification(key): juu‧ri
      • Hyphenation(key): juu‧ri

      Adverb

      juuri (not comparable)

      1. right, just, exactly, precisely
        Synonyms: tismalleen, täsmälleen
        juuri niin ― just right
        juuri nyt ― right now
        Hän tuli juuri oikeaan aikaan.
        He came at exactly the right time.
      2. just now; very close to now, either presently, (very) recently or (very) shortly, just about
        Synonyms: (presently) juuri nyt, (just now, very recently) äsken
        Juna lähtee juuri.
        The train is just about to leave.
        Juurihan minä saavuin.
        But I just arrived.
      3. (chiefly in the negative) hardly, (not) that much, (not) that many
        Hän ei juuri(kaan) lue kirjoja.
        He hardly reads any books.
        En maksanut siitä juuri mitään tammikuun alennusmyynnissä.
        I got it for next to nothing in the January sales.
        Hän teeskentelee tietäväistä, mutta oikeasti hän ei tiedä juuri mitään.
        He pretends to be knowledgeable, but actually he knows next to nothing.
      4. barely, just barely, just about
        Synonyms: hädin tuskin, nipin napin, juuri ja juuri
        Ruokaa riittää juuri neljälle.
        There's just barely enough food for four people.
      Derived terms

      Further reading

      Etymology 3

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈjuːri/, [ˈjuːri] (third-person indicative)
      • IPA(key): /ˈjuːriˣ/, [ˈjuːri(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
      • Rhymes: -uːri
      • Syllabification(key): juu‧ri
      • Hyphenation(key): juu‧ri

      Verb

      juuri

      1. inflection of juuria:
        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
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      Ingrian

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *juuri. Cognates include Finnish juuri and Estonian juur.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      juuri

      1. root
        • 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. I. Molotsova, Loonnontiito (ensimäin osa): oppikirja alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:
          Jos hyväst katsoa pintamaan sloijaa jyrkäst rannast, nii hänes saap nähä eläviä ja koolleita kasvon juuriloja ja männävootist märkänevvää heinää, eläviä ja kuollehia itikkaisia, matokkaisia ja muita heenoja elokkaja.
          If you look well at the layer of topsoil from the steep shore, then in it it's possible to see living and dead roots of plants and last year's rotten hay, living and dead bugs, worms and other little animals.
      2. (in the plural) roots, ancestry
        • 2009, Inkeri‎, volume 1, number 71, St. Petersburg, page 9:
          Se männö meien silmin iess, tuntu, vaikko ei koko aik sitä ikäyksi saa arvo, kel olla ižorin juured.
          It went before our eyes, the feeling, even if not everyone understands this all the time, who have Izhorian roots.

      Declension

      More information Declension of (type 5/keeli, no gradation), singular ...

      Derived terms

      References

      • Fedor Tumansky (1790), “юри”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 683
      • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 112
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      Karelian

      Noun

      juuri

      1. root

      Mayo

      Noun

      juuri

      1. white-nosed coati (Nasua narica)

      References

      • Collard, Howard; Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984), Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 103, 157

      Votic

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *juuri.

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      juuri

      1. root

      Inflection

      More information Declension of (type X/tuli, no gradation), singular ...

      References

      • Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “juuri”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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