liki

Borrowed from English leak.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈliki]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Hyphenation: li‧ki

liki (present likas, past likis, future likos, conditional likus, volitive liku)

1. to leak

• Ido: likar

liki- +‎ -i (i-lative singular)

• IPA^(key): /ˈliki/, [ˈlik̟i]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification^(key): li‧ki

liki (+ number)

1. almost, nearly, close to

   Synonyms: lähes, melkein

   Auto maksaa liki kaksisataatuhatta euroa. ― The car costs almost 200,000 euros.

   Painan liki sata kiloa. ― I weigh nearly one hundred kilograms.

See liki-.

• “liki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• ilki, kili

• IPA^(key): /ˈliki/

liki

1. plural of liko

From Proto-Finnic *liki. Cognates include Finnish liki and Estonian ligi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈliki/, [ˈlʲiki]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈliki/, [ˈlʲiɡ̊i]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Hyphenation: li‧ki

liki

1. near, close

liki (+ partitive)

1. close to
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, pages 3-4:

     Neet dialektat ollaa liki toin toista, mut i ero niijen välil kera ono.

     These dialects are close to each other, but there is also a difference between these.

   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 53:

     Yks ono liki Leningradaa, toin Moskovaa, Kalininan, Ivanovon ja Gorjkin linnoin välis.

     One is close to Leningrad, the other to Moscow, between the cities of Kalinin, Ivanovo and Gorky.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 265

liki

1. second-person singular past indicative of likt

liki

1. hoof

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liki

1. woodpecker

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 45