kives

kives

1. plural of kive

• Kievs, kievs, skive, vikes

From Old Danish kiffue, from Old Norse kífa, either a cognate of or borrowed from Middle Low German kīven, Proto-Germanic *kībaną. Other cognates are German keifen and Dutch kijven.

IPA^(key): [ˈkʰiːvəs, ˈkʰiːʊs]

kives (imperative -, infinitive at kives, present tense kives, past tense kivedes, perfect tense har kivedes)

1. (archaic) to quarrel

kiv

“kives” in Den Danske Ordbog

kives

1. inessive plural of kivi

From Proto-Finnic *kives, equivalent to kivi (“stone”) +‎ -s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋes/, [ˈk̟iʋe̞s̠]
• Rhymes: -iʋes
• Hyphenation^(key): ki‧ves

kives

1. (archaic) A stone inside birch bark, used as weight for a fishnet.
2. (anatomy) testicle

   Synonyms: (informal) keleksi, kelli, kulkunen, muna, munasku, munaskuukkeli, palli

• “kives”, 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 2023-07-02

• veski

From Proto-Finnic *kives, equivalent to kive- (“stone”) +‎ -s. Cognates include Finnish kives and Veps kivez.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋes/, [ˈkiʋe̞z̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋes/, [ˈkiʋe̞ʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -iʋes
• Hyphenation: ki‧ves

kives

1. stone inside birchbark used as a weight for a fishnet

Declension of kives (type 2/petos, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kives	kivekset
genitive	kiveksen	kiveksiin
partitive	kivestä, kivest	kiveksiä
illative	kiveksee	kiveksii
inessive	kiveksees	kiveksiis
elative	kiveksest	kiveksist
allative	kivekselle	kiveksille
adessive	kivekseel	kiveksiil
ablative	kivekselt	kiveksilt
translative	kivekseks	kiveksiks
essive	kiveksennä, kivekseen	kiveksinnä, kiveksiin
exessive1)	kiveksent	kiveksint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• kivi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋesːæ/, [ˈkiʋe̞s̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkiʋes/, [ˈkiʋe̞ʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -iʋesː, -iʋes
• Hyphenation: ki‧ves

kives

1. inessive singular of kivi

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 172