kaksi

Finnish

Finnish numbers (edit)
20
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    Cardinal: kaksi
    Colloquial counting form: kaa
    Ordinal: toinen
    Colloquial ordinal: toka
    Ordinal abbreviation: 2., 2:nen
    Digit name: kakkonen
    Adverbial: kahdesti
    Multiplier: kaksinkertainen
    Distributive: kaksittain
    Collective: kahden, kaksin
    Fractional: puolikas

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakci (compare Estonian kaks), from Proto-Uralic *käktä ~ *kakta (compare Northern Sami guoktẹ, Erzya кавто (kavto), Eastern Mari кок (kok), Komi-Zyrian кык (kyk), Northern Khanty кӑт (kăt), Hungarian két, Tundra Nenets сидя (syidya)).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑksi/, [ˈkɑ̝ks̠i]
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑks/, [ˈkɑ̝ks̠] (colloquial)
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑksi
  • Syllabification(key): kak‧si
  • Hyphenation(key): kak‧si

Numeral

kaksi

  1. two

Usage notes

  • See Appendix:Finnish numbers

Declension

Derived terms

numerals
proper nouns
compounds

See also

References

  1. ^ Santeri Junttila, Petri Kallio, Sampsa Holopainen, Juha Kuokkala, Juho Pystynen, editors (2020–), “kaksi”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 1 January 2024

Further reading

Anagrams

Karelian

Numeral

kaksi

  1. superseded spelling of kakši

References

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999), Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52