kaija

See also: Kaija and kaijā

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑijːɑ]
  • Hyphenation: kai‧ja

Declension

Inflection of kaija (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative kaija kaijat
genitive kaijan kaijojen
partitive kaijaa kaijoja
illative kaijaan kaijoihin
singular plural
nominative kaija kaijat
accusative nom. kaija kaijat
gen. kaijan
genitive kaijan kaijojen
kaijainrare
partitive kaijaa kaijoja
inessive kaijassa kaijoissa
elative kaijasta kaijoista
illative kaijaan kaijoihin
adessive kaijalla kaijoilla
ablative kaijalta kaijoilta
allative kaijalle kaijoille
essive kaijana kaijoina
translative kaijaksi kaijoiksi
instructive — kaijoin
abessive kaijatta kaijoitta
comitative — kaijoineen

Etymology 1

From Swedish kaj (“quay, wharf”)

Noun

kaija

  1. (nautical, slang) quay

Etymology 2

Abbreviated from papukaija (“parrot”).

Noun

kaija

  1. parrot, racquet-tail, parakeet (used in common names of numerous parrot species)
  2. (zoology, in the plural) Psittacula (genus of parakeet)
Hypernyms

Etymology 3

Noun

kaija

  1. (dialectal) kittiwake (a seabird)
Synonyms

Latvian

Kaiju bars

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately a sound symbolic word, based on the seagull's squawk (kai, ke; cf. Russian чайка (čajka)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kāīja]
(file)

Noun

kaija f (4th declension)

  1. gull, seagull (sea bird of family Laridae, especially genus Larus)
    kaiju bars ― a flock of gulls
    kaiju dzimta ― the gull family (= Laridae)
    kaijas un albatrosi milzīgiem bariem aplido kuģi ― gulls and albatrosses flew around the ship in huge groups

Declension

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “kaija”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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