käppiä
Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *käpedä. Cognates include dialectal Finnish käpeä (“brisk”) and Estonian käbe (“quick”).
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈkæpiæ/, [ˈkæpːe̞]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈkæpiæ/, [ˈkæpˑiæ]
- Rhymes: -æpeː, -æpiæ
- Hyphenation: käp‧pi‧ä
Adjective
käppiä (comparative käppiämp)
- beautiful, pretty
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 29:
- Meren pohjaas veel elläät erittee käppiät meritähet.
- On the bottom of the sea also live exceptionally beautiful starfishes.
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:kaunis
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