alkukesä

== Finnish == === Etymology === alku (“beginning”) +‎ kesä (“summer”) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑlkuˌkesæ/, [ˈɑ̝lkuˌk̟e̞s̠æ] Rhymes: -esæ Syllabification(key): al‧ku‧ke‧sä Hyphenation(key): alku‧kesä === Noun === alkukesä early summer (an inexactly defined period covering the first few weeks of the summer) ==== Declension ==== ==== Antonyms ==== loppukesä ==== Derived terms ==== alkukesäinen ==== See also ==== keskikesä === Further reading === “alkukesä”, 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 2 July 2023