käsi

== Estonian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käte. Cognate with Finnish käsi, Erzya кедь (keď) and Hungarian kéz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæsʲi] === Noun === käsi (genitive käe, partitive kätt) hand arm ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (part of the arm below the wrist): käbar (informal), kätu (childish); (palm of the hand): kämmal (formal), käpp (figurative), kännu (childish), pats (childish); (the upper limb of a human): ülajäse (formal); (eating hand): söömakäsi (informal), aadamakahvel (figurative). ==== Derived terms ==== käsitlema käekell käekott käsipuu käsivars == Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käci (compare Estonian käsi), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *käte (compare Northern Sami giehta, Erzya кедь (keď), Eastern Mari кид (kid), Komi-Zyrian ки (ki), Hungarian kéz). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈk̟æs̠i] Rhymes: -æsi Syllabification(key): kä‧si Hyphenation(key): kä‧si === Noun === käsi hand, arm; an upper limb of a human or certain animals käsistään taitava ― skilled with one's hands (card games) hand (cards held by a player) (figuratively) hand (management, domain, control) ankaralla kädellä ― with a firm hand, with an iron fist (figuratively) hand (authorship, penmanship) taiteilijan käsissä ― in the hands of an artist (figuratively, possibly in the plural) hand (possession) suvumme käsissä ― in the hands of our family (owned, possessed by our family) (figuratively) hand (influence from something intangible when it is anthropomorphized) kohtalon käsi ― the hand of fate ==== Usage notes ==== käsi refers variously to the hand, arm or both. If context is required (such as in anatomy), käsivarsi is used for “arm” and käsi (or less commonly käsiterä) for “hand”. ==== Declension ==== The genitive plural kätten is still rather common. ==== Hyponyms ==== (hand, arm): olkavarsi (from shoulder to elbow) kyynärvarsi (from elbow to wrist) kämmen, koura (from wrist to fingers) ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “käsi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (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 === Anagrams === -ksiä, iskä == Ingrian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käci, from Proto-Uralic *käte. Cognates include Finnish käsi and Estonian käsi. === Pronunciation === (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæs̠iˑ] (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈkæsi/, [ˈkæʒ̥iˑ] Rhymes: -æsi Hyphenation: kä‧si === Noun === käsi hand, arm palm (unit of measure) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (hand, arm): kännö (childish) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== === References === Fedor Tumansky (1790), “касси”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679 V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 62 Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 236 Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎[4], →ISBN, page 39 == Karelian == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käci. Cognates include Finnish käsi and Veps käzi. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkæsʲi/ Hyphenation: kä‧si === Noun === käsi (genitive kiän, partitive kättä) (North Karelian) hand, arm ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “käsi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN == Võro == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *käci. === Noun === käsi (genitive käe, partitive kätt) arm hand ==== Inflection ====