veräi

See also: verai

Livvi

Etymology

Borrowed from Old East Slavic верѣꙗ (verěja), from Proto-Slavic *verěja. Cognates include Finnish veräjä and Estonian värav.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʋerʲæi̯/
  • Hyphenation: ve‧räi
  • Rhymes: -erʲæi̯

Noun

veräi (genitive veriän, partitive veriädy)

  1. door, gate

References
  • Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 10
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) “veräi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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