renki
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish dräng, from Old Norse drengr, from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz. Sense 2 is inspired by Norwegian dreng (“a boy, lad”). Attested since the time of Mikael Agricola (16th century), originally as trenki.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]renki
- (chiefly historical) farmhand, farmboy
- Synonym: maataloustyöntekijä
- (obsolete, Lapland) a boychild (term of endearment "own son")
Declension
[edit]Inflection of renki (Kotus type 5*G/risti, nk-ng gradation) | |||
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nominative | renki | rengit | |
genitive | rengin | renkien | |
partitive | renkiä | renkejä | |
illative | renkiin | renkeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | renki | rengit | |
accusative | nom. | renki | rengit |
gen. | rengin | ||
genitive | rengin | renkien | |
partitive | renkiä | renkejä | |
inessive | rengissä | rengeissä | |
elative | rengistä | rengeistä | |
illative | renkiin | renkeihin | |
adessive | rengillä | rengeillä | |
ablative | rengiltä | rengeiltä | |
allative | rengille | rengeille | |
essive | renkinä | renkeinä | |
translative | rengiksi | rengeiksi | |
abessive | rengittä | rengeittä | |
instructive | — | rengein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Descendants
[edit]- → Ingrian: trenki (from older trenki)
References
[edit]- Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Helsinki: Sanoma Pro OY. →ISBN.
Further reading
[edit]- “renki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]Karelian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Swedish dräng, from Old Norse drengr.
Noun
[edit]renki (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
Lithuanian
[edit]Verb
[edit]renki
Categories:
- Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Swedish
- Finnish terms derived from Old Norse
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Finnish semantic loans from Norwegian
- Finnish terms derived from Norwegian
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋki
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋki/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with historical senses
- Finnish terms with obsolete senses
- Lapland Finnish
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Agriculture
- fi:Occupations
- Karelian terms borrowed from Swedish
- Karelian terms derived from Swedish
- Karelian terms derived from Old Norse
- Karelian lemmas
- Karelian nouns
- krl:Agriculture
- krl:Occupations
- Lithuanian non-lemma forms
- Lithuanian verb forms