peura
Finnish
(index pe)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *petra. Cognates include Finnish dialectal petra, Estonian põder, Veps pedr and Votic põdra.
Noun
peura
- a reindeer or a caribou, a general term used to refer to the deer species Rangifer tarandus and its twelve subspecies
- Short for metsäpeura (“Finnish forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus)”).
- telemetacarpal deer (any species of subfamily Capreolinae)
- any medium-sized deer of unspecified species
Declension
| Inflection of peura (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | peura | peurat | |
| genitive | peuran | peurojen | |
| partitive | peuraa | peuroja | |
| illative | peuraan | peuroihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | peura | peurat | |
| accusative | nom. | peura | peurat |
| gen. | peuran | ||
| genitive | peuran | peurojen peurainrare | |
| partitive | peuraa | peuroja | |
| inessive | peurassa | peuroissa | |
| elative | peurasta | peuroista | |
| illative | peuraan | peuroihin | |
| adessive | peuralla | peuroilla | |
| ablative | peuralta | peuroilta | |
| allative | peuralle | peuroille | |
| essive | peurana | peuroina | |
| translative | peuraksi | peuroiksi | |
| instructive | — | peuroin | |
| abessive | peuratta | peuroitta | |
| comitative | — | peuroineen | |
Hyponyms
- (caribou): karibu
- metsäpeura
- poro, tunturipeura
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