pehmei

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pehmedä. Cognates include Finnish pehmeä and Estonian pehme.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpehmei̯/
  • Hyphenation: peh‧mei
  • Rhymes: -ehmei̯

Adjective

pehmei (genitive pehmien, partitive pehmiedy)

  1. soft
  2. (phonology) palatalised

Derived terms

(verb):

References
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “pehmei”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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