jää-äär

Estonian

Etymology

jää + äär.

Pronunciation

Noun

jää-äär (genitive jää-ääre, partitive jää-äärt)

  1. The edge of a stretch of ice.

Usage notes

  • This term is spelled without the hyphen ("jäääär") in a number of non-Estonian texts, in which the word is presented as a curiosity; the unhyphenated spelling is nonstandard.

Declension

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