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viisi

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Finnish

Finnish numbers (edit)
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    Cardinal: viisi
    Colloquial counting form: vii
    Ordinal: viides
    Colloquial ordinal: viikki (regional)
    Ordinal abbreviation: 5., 5:s
    Digit name: viitonen
    Adverbial: viidesti
    Multiplier: viisinkertainen
    Fractional: viidesosa, viidennes

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *viici, from Proto-Uralic *witte. Cognates include Estonian viis, Erzya вете (vete), Northern Khanty вет (wjet), Northern Mansi ат (at), Hungarian öt, and Nganasan бииʔ (bīʔ, ten).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋiːsi/, [ˈʋiːs̠i]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːsi
  • Syllabification(key): vii‧si
  • Hyphenation(key): vii‧si

Numeral

viisi

  1. five

Usage notes

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

Derived terms

numerals

See also

Further reading

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Ingrian

Etymology

Ultimately from Middle Low German wis, possibly via Estonian viis.

Pronunciation

Noun

viisi (partitive viittä, illative viisii)

  1. way, manner
    Läätä ihmisen viittä.To talk like a human. (literally, “To talk a human's way.”)
    • 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.

Usage notes

  • Almost exclusively used in the partitive singular and illative plural.
  • Viisi is often used with a determiner in the allative. In this case, the noun's case doesn't match with the determiner's:
    yhel / samal viittäthe same way
    toiseel viisiianother way
    mil viittä?in what way?
    monel viisiiin many ways
    sil viisiias such; in this way
  • When used with an adjective, however, the adjective does take over the case of the noun:
    vanhaa viittäthe old way

See also

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 674
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Karelian

Karelian cardinal numbers
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    Cardinal : viisi
    Ordinal : viijes
    Fractional : viijennes

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *viici, from Proto-Uralic *witte. Cognates include Finnish viisi and Estonian viis.

Pronunciation

Numeral

viisi

  1. five

Declension

More information plural, nominative ...

References

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999), Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52
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Votic

Etymology 1

From the illative singular of a noun *viis, from Estonian viis. Cognate with Ingrian viisii.

Pronunciation

Postposition

viisi [with genitive]

  1. in the way or manner of, like

References

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Numeral

viisi

  1. alternative form of viis

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