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pesä

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See also: pesa, Pesa, pesá, pesà, and pesâ

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä, from Proto-Uralic *pesä. Cognate with Karelian pešä, Estonian pesa, Erzya пизэ (pizë) and Hungarian fészek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpesæ/, [ˈpe̞s̠æ]
  • Rhymes: -esæ
  • Syllabification(key): pe‧sä
  • Hyphenation(key): pe‧sä

Noun

pesä

  1. nest (structure built by a bird or other animal as a place to incubate eggs and hatch and/or rear young)
  2. nest (cozy residence)
  3. nest (hideout for bad people to frequent)
    Se yökerho on outojen tyyppien pesä!
    That nightclub is a nest of strange people!
  4. nest (parental home)
    Aion lähteä pesästä.
    I am aspiring to leave the nest.
  5. den (home of certain animals)
    Daniel laitettiin leijonien pesään.
    Daniel was put into the lions’ den.
  6. burrow (home of certain animals)
  7. hive (structure, which a swarm of honeybees inhabits or has inhabited)
  8. bowl (round part of a spoon; the part of a pipe that holds the material to be burned)
  9. (law) estate (collected property of a person or corporate entity)
  10. (baseball, pesäpallo) base
  11. (curling) house
  12. (firearms) chamber
    Synonym: patruunapesä
  13. (metallurgy) bottom, crucible (of a blast furnace)
  14. ellipsis of tulipesä (firebox)
  15. ellipsis of piipunpesä (bowl (of a pipe))
  16. ellipsis of öljypesä (font (of an oil lamp))
  17. (colloquial) vagina
    saada pesääto get laid

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä. Cognates include Finnish pesä and Estonian pesa.

Pronunciation

Noun

pesä

  1. nest
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62:
      Soojan pesän kuusee laatii.
      It makes a warm nest in a spruce.
  2. den, burrow
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62:
      Karhu pesäs makajaa.
      The bear is sleeping in its den.
  3. short for munapesä

Declension

More information Declension of (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination), singular ...

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • (diminutive, folk poetic) pesoin

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 403
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Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä, from Proto-Uralic *pesä.

Noun

pesä (genitive pesä, partitive pessä)

  1. nest

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Votic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *pesä.

Noun

pesä

  1. nest
  2. lair, den
Inflection
More information Declension of (type VIII/päive, s-z gradation), singular ...

Etymology 2

Verb

pesä

  1. alternative form of pesse

References

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