neiti

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neiti, from Proto-Uralic *nejde (girl, daughter). Cognates with Estonian neid (miss, girl), Inari Sami nieidâ (girl), and Forest Enets [Term?] (nere-kétschu, lass, female child). Compare Proto-Uralic *näxi (woman, female) or *naje (woman). In this etymology, the lexeme neiti would have the same Proto-Uralic stem as nainen and naida.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

neiti

  1. miss (unmarried woman, girl; title of respect for a young woman)

Declension

Inflection of neiti (Kotus type 5/risti, t-d gradation)
nominative neiti neidit
genitive neidin neitien
partitive neitiä neitejä
illative neitiin neiteihin
singular plural
nominative neiti neidit
accusative nom. neiti neidit
gen. neidin
genitive neidin neitien
partitive neitiä neitejä
inessive neidissä neideissä
elative neidistä neideistä
illative neitiin neiteihin
adessive neidillä neideillä
ablative neidiltä neideiltä
allative neidille neideille
essive neitinä neiteinä
translative neidiksi neideiksi
instructive neidein
abessive neidittä neideittä
comitative neiteineen

Archaic declension:

Compounds

  • hovineiti
  • kamarineiti
  • pankkineiti
  • pikkuneiti
  • seuraneiti

Further reading

Uralic etymology, Sergei Starostin

Anagrams


Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *neiti, from Proto-Uralic *nejde (girl, daughter).

Noun

neiti

  1. little girl
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