pehmendiä

Livvi

Etymology

From pehmei (“soft”) +‎ -ndiä. Akin to Finnish pehmentää.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpehmendʲiæ̯/
  • Hyphenation: peh‧men‧diä

Verb

pehmendiä

  1. (transitive) to soften
  2. (phonology, transitive) to palatalise

Derived terms

(nouns):

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