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See also: Venät

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *venät (genitive *venäden), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *winidaz (Slav).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋenæt/, [ˈʋe̞næt̪]
  • Rhymes: -enæt
  • Syllabification(key): ve‧nät
  • Hyphenation(key): ve‧nät

Noun

venät

  1. (rare) A Russian.
  2. (Eastern Finnish) Russian (language)

Declension

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

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Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *venät. Cognate with dialectal Finnish venät.

Pronunciation

Noun

venät

  1. (in the plural) Russians
  2. (in the singular) Russian language
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 12:
      Slogattommia vokaloja ono i vennäen keelees slogatoin i, see merkitää eri bukvaal Й.
      Of the unsyllabic vowels in the Russian language there is also the unsyllabic i, which is written with the different letter Й.
    • 2008, “Läkkäämmä omal viisii [We're speaking [our] own way]”, in Inkeri, volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 12:
      Möö veel läkkäämmä omal viisii, a olliit mokkomat akat, miä veel muissan, miä olin pikkutyttö, höö vennäheks evät mahtanehet läätä.
      We still speak in our own way, but there were such old women, I still remember, I was a little girl, they couldn't speak Russian.

Declension

More information Declension of (type 7/kevät, no gradation, gemination), singular ...

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References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 653
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