tuvi
Estonian
Etymology
From Middle Low German dûve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ, whence also English dove and German Taube.
Dialectal variants include tui (where the v has been lost) and tuuvi, compare also Ingrian tuuvi. See also turteltuvi. First attested in 1632.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtuvi/, [ˈtuvi]
- Rhymes: -uvi
- Hyphenation: tu‧vi
Noun
tuvi (genitive tuvi, partitive tuvi)
- dove, pigeon (Columba)
- parem varblane peos kui tuvi katusel ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (literally, “better a sparrow in the palm than a pigeon on the roof”)
Declension
Declension of tuvi (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | tuvi | tuvid | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | tuvi | ||
genitive | tuvide | ||
partitive | tuvi | tuvisid | |
illative | tuvisse | tuvidesse | |
inessive | tuvis | tuvides | |
elative | tuvist | tuvidest | |
allative | tuvile | tuvidele | |
adessive | tuvil | tuvidel | |
ablative | tuvilt | tuvidelt | |
translative | tuviks | tuvideks | |
terminative | tuvini | tuvideni | |
essive | tuvina | tuvidena | |
abessive | tuvita | tuvideta | |
comitative | tuviga | tuvidega |
Derived terms
- tuvike
- tuvikene
- tuvila
- tuviline
Compounds
- ilutuvi
- kaelustuvi
- kaljutuvi
- kirjatuvi
- kodutuvi
- kroontuvi
- lihatuvi
- maatuvi
- metstuvi
- postituvi
- pugutuvi
- rahutuvi
- rändtuvi
- turteltuvi
- õõnetuvi
- tuvihall
- tuvikarva
- tuvikasvataja
- tuvikasvatus
- tuvikong
- tuvimaja
- tuvimuna
- tuvipaar
- tuviparv
- tuvipost
- tuvisinine
- tuvisõnnik
- tuviõun
References
- tuvi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “tuvi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- Jüri Viikberg (2016) “tuvi”, in [ASL] Alamsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [Low German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)
Latvian
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