vainu
Appearance
See also: vaiņu
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *vainu, probably borrowed from Old East Slavic [script needed] (vonjú), accusative of [script needed] (vonja); compare Russian вонь (vonʹ, “stench, smell”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vainu
- scent (odour of a game animal as a trace sensed by a predator)
- Kun koira saa vainun, se voi seurata hirveä tuntikausia.
- When a dog gets the scent, it can chase an elk for several hours.
- scent, sense of smell of an animal, especially of a hunting animal
- Tällä rodulla on erinomainen vainu.
- This breed's got an excellent scent.
- (figuratively) hunch, scent
- nose (skill in recognizing valuable information)
- Martilla on hyvä liikevainu.
- Martti has a good nose for business.
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of vainu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | vainu | vainut | |
| genitive | vainun | vainujen | |
| partitive | vainua | vainuja | |
| illative | vainuun | vainuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | vainu | vainut | |
| accusative | nom. | vainu | vainut |
| gen. | vainun | ||
| genitive | vainun | vainujen | |
| partitive | vainua | vainuja | |
| inessive | vainussa | vainuissa | |
| elative | vainusta | vainuista | |
| illative | vainuun | vainuihin | |
| adessive | vainulla | vainuilla | |
| ablative | vainulta | vainuilta | |
| allative | vainulle | vainuille | |
| essive | vainuna | vainuina | |
| translative | vainuksi | vainuiksi | |
| abessive | vainutta | vainuitta | |
| instructive | — | vainuin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]verbs
compounds
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vainu”, 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 4 July 2023
Anagrams
[edit]Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]vainu f
- inflection of vaina:
Categories:
- Finnish terms inherited from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms derived from Proto-Finnic
- Finnish terms borrowed from Old East Slavic
- Finnish terms derived from Old East Slavic
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑinu
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑinu/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms with usage examples
- Finnish valo-type nominals
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian noun forms