kiändiä

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *käntädäk. Cognates include Finnish kääntää and Estonian käänata.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkiæ̯ndiæ̯/
  • Hyphenation: kiän‧diä

Verb

kiändiä

  1. (transitive) to turn
  2. (transitive) to bend
  3. (transitive, + translative) to translate
    Minä kiännän kniigua liivekse. ― I am translating the book into Livvi.

Derived terms

(noun):

References
  • N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎ (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 11
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 113
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