lintu

From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta or *linta, a cognate of Estonian lind, Ter Sami lonnˈt, Northern Mansi лунт (lunt) and Hungarian lúd.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlintu/, [ˈlin̪t̪u]

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• Rhymes: -intu
• Hyphenation^(key): lin‧tu

lintu

1. bird (animal in the class Aves, having a beaked mouth and usually capable of flight)
2. poultry (meat of domesticated fowl used for nutrition)

• (poultry): linnunliha

• “lintu”, 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 2023-07-03

• tulin

From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta. Cognates include Finnish lintu and Estonian lind.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlintu/, [ˈlʲintŭ̥]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlʲintu/, [ˈlʲind̥u]
• Rhymes: -intu
• Hyphenation: lin‧tu

lintu

1. bird
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 30:

     Lentäät nyt linnut.

     The birds are flying now.

Declension of lintu (type 4/koivu, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lintu	linnut
genitive	linnun	lintuin, lintuloin
partitive	lintua	lintuja, lintuloja
illative	lintuu	lintui, lintuloihe
inessive	linnuus	linnuis, lintulois
elative	linnust	linnuist, lintuloist
allative	linnulle	linnuille, lintuloille
adessive	linnuul	linnuil, lintuloil
ablative	linnult	linnuilt, lintuloilt
translative	linnuks	linnuiks, lintuloiks
essive	lintunna, lintuun	lintuinna, lintuloinna, lintuin, lintuloin
exessive1)	lintunt	lintuint, lintuloint
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.

• elokas (“animal”)

• zveeri (“animal”), kala (“fish”)

• (diminutive) lintuin

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “линду”, 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 681
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 20
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 267

Regional variants of lintu

North Karelian (Viena)	lintu
South Karelian (Tver)	lindu

From Proto-Finnic *lintu. Cognates include Finnish lintu and Veps lind.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲintu/
• Hyphenation: lin‧tu

lintu (genitive linnun, partitive lintuo)

1. (North Karelian) bird

Viena Karelian declension of lintu (type 1/tyttö, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lintu	linnut
genitive	linnun	lintujen
partitive	lintuo	lintuja
illative	lintuh	lintuloih
inessive	linnušša	lintuloissa
elative	linnušta	lintuloista
adessive	linnulla	lintuloilla
ablative	linnulta	lintuloilta
translative	linnukši	lintuloiksi
essive	lintuna	lintuloina
comitative	—	lintuloineh
abessive	linnutta	lintuloitta

Possessive forms of lintu
1st person	lintuni
2nd person	lintuš
3rd person	lintuh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “lintu”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *lintu, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *lunta or *linta, a cognate of Estonian lind and Hungarian lúd.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈlintu/, [ˈlintu]
• Rhymes: -intu
• Hyphenation: lin‧tu

lintu

1. bird

Declension of lintu (type II/võrkko, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lintu	linnud
genitive	linnu	lintujõ, lintui
partitive	lintua	lintuitõ, lintui
illative	lintusõ, lintu	lintuisõ
inessive	linnuz	lintuiz
elative	linnussõ	lintuissõ
allative	linnulõ	lintuilõ
adessive	linnullõ	lintuillõ
ablative	linnultõ	lintuiltõ
translative	linnussi	lintuissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn