kieli

From Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle.^[1] Cognates include Karelian kieli, Estonian keel, Northern Sami giella, Moksha кяль (käľ), Erzya кель (keľ), Eastern Khanty кӧԓ (köł) and Nganasan сиәде (siədje).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/, [ˈk̟ie̞̯li]

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• Rhymes: -ieli
• Syllabification^(key): kie‧li

kieli

1. (anatomy) tongue (organ)
2. (by extension) tang, tongue, projecting part
   1. (music) string (tightly tensioned wire that produces a tone)
   2. (music) reed (vibrating part in the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument)
   3. clapper, clanger, tongue (in a bell)
   4. pointer, needle (on a balance scale)
   5. tongue (in a shoe)

      Synonym: iltti

3. language (form of communication)
   1. language, tongue (particular form of oral or spoken communication used by a community)
   2. language, tongue (manner of expression; particular words or structures used in a speech or a passage of text)

Can be used to distinguish meanings in terms for languages, such as islanti (“Icelandic”) being replaced with the more precise islannin kieli (literally “the language of Icelandic; Icelandic language”). In this case, the preceding word is in the genitive. This is used particularly when speaking where there is no discernible difference between Islanti (“Iceland”) and islanti (“Icelandic (language)”) without relying on context.

• Kven: kieli
• Meänkieli: kieli

• “kieli”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/, [ˈk̟ie̞̯li] (third-person indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯liˣ/, [ˈk̟ie̞̯li(ʔ)] (imperative, indicative connegative)
• Rhymes: -ieli
• Syllabification^(key): kie‧li

kieli

1. inflection of kieliä:
   1. third-person singular past indicative
   2. present active indicative connegative
   3. second-person singular present imperative
   4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• keili, leiki, liike

From Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognates include Finnish kieli and Estonian keel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯lʲi/
• Hyphenation: kie‧li

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieltä or kieldä)

1. tongue
2. language
3. clanger, clapper

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kiel'i”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры), →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “язык”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja, →ISBN

From Finnish kieli, from Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieltä)

1. tongue
2. language

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 293

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognates include Finnish kieli and Estonian keel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/
• Hyphenation: kie‧li

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieldy)

1. tongue
2. language
3. clapper (of a bell)

(compounds):

• Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse, St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 10
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh), 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 105