suits

• IPA^(key): /s(j)uːts/

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• Rhymes: -uːts

suits

1. plural of suit

suits

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of suit

• Situs, Tsuis, situs, suist

From Proto-Finnic *suiccu. Cognate to Votic suisu, Finnish suitsuke (“incense”), suitsu (“smoke”), Karelian šuittša (“fog”) and Võro tsuits.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsui̯ts/

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• Hyphenation: suits

suits (genitive suitsu, partitive suitsu)

1. smoke
   1. The floating mixture of gases, air, and particulates given off by the combustion or smoldering of something.

      Kõik oli maast laeni paksu suitsu täis.

      Everything top to bottom was full of dense smoke.

   2. household, farmstead, family

      1816. aasta revisjonis oli Kikepera külas juba neli suitsu.

      In the 1816 audit, Kikepera village already had four households.

   3. cigarette, smoke

• (smoke): toss, tomu, vine, vina, ving, karm
• (household): talu, talumajapidamine, talukoht, koht, maja, majapidamine, pere
• (cigarette): sigaret, pabeross, pläru, tobi

• suits in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)