kehu
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See also: kèhù
Finnish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kehu
- praise, commendation (favorable representation in words)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of kehu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | kehu | kehut | ||
genitive | kehun | kehujen | ||
partitive | kehua | kehuja | ||
illative | kehuun | kehuihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | kehu | kehut | ||
accusative | nom. | kehu | kehut | |
gen. | kehun | |||
genitive | kehun | kehujen | ||
partitive | kehua | kehuja | ||
inessive | kehussa | kehuissa | ||
elative | kehusta | kehuista | ||
illative | kehuun | kehuihin | ||
adessive | kehulla | kehuilla | ||
ablative | kehulta | kehuilta | ||
allative | kehulle | kehuille | ||
essive | kehuna | kehuina | ||
translative | kehuksi | kehuiksi | ||
abessive | kehutta | kehuitta | ||
instructive | — | kehuin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “kehu”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kehu
- inflection of kehua:
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Proto-Polynesian *kefu (“light-coloured”) (compare with Hawaiian ʻehu (“reddish”), Tahitian ʻehu (“reddish, ginger”), Tongan kefu (“brownish”) and Samoan ʻefu (“reddish brown”))[1][2][3]
Adjective
[edit]kehu
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 123
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kefu”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Branstetter, Katherine B. (1977 January) “A Reconstruction of Proto-Polynesian Color Terminology”, in Anthropological Linguistics[2], volume 19, number 1, page 21
Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- Finnish terms suffixed with -u
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ehu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ehu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Finnish non-lemma forms
- Finnish verb forms
- Maori terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Maori lemmas
- Maori adjectives