viisi

From Proto-Finnic *viici (compare Estonian viis), from Proto-Uralic *witte (compare Erzya вете (vete), Northern Khanty вет (wjet), Northern Mansi ат (at), Hungarian öt, Nganasan бииˮ (biiʔ, “ten”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/, [ˈʋiːs̠i]

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• Rhymes: -iːsi
• Syllabification^(key): vii‧si
• Hyphenation^(key): vii‧si

viisi

1. five

• See Appendix:Finnish numbers.

• vii

• “1. viisi”, 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 27 January 2024

Ultimately from Middle Low German wis, possibly via Estonian viis.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/, [ˈʋiːs̠ʲ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsi/, [ˈʋiːʒ̥i]
• Rhymes: -iːsʲ, -iːsi
• Hyphenation: vii‧si
• Homophone: viis

viisi (partitive viittä, illative viisii)

1. way, manner

   Läätä ihmisen viittä. ― To talk like a human. (literally, “To talk a human's way.”)

   • 2008, “Läkkäämmä omal viisii [We're speaking [our] own way]”, in Inkeri‎^[2], volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 12:

     Möö veel läkkäämmä omal viisii, a olliit mokkomat akat, miä veel muissan, miä olin pikkutyttö, höö vennäheks evät mahtanehet läätä.

     We still speak in our own way, but there were such old women, I still remember, I was a little girl, they couldn't speak Russian.

• Almost exclusively used in the partitive singular and illative plural.
• Viisi is often used with a determiner in the allative. In this case, the noun's case doesn't match with the determiner's:

  yhel / samal viittä ― the same way

  toiseel viisii ― another way

  mil viittä? ― in what way?

  monel viisii ― in many ways

  sil viisii ― as such; in this way

• When used with an adjective, however, the adjective does take over the case of the noun:

  vanhaa viittä ― the old way

• verta

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 674

From Proto-Finnic *viici. Cognates include Finnish viisi and Veps viž.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsʲi/
• Hyphenation: vii‧si

viisi

1. (North Karelian) five

• P. M. Zaykov (1999), Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 52
• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “viisi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 207

From the illative singular of a noun *viisi, from Estonian viis. Cognate with Ingrian viisii.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈviːsiː/, [ˈvʲiːsʲi]
• Rhymes: -iːsiː
• Hyphenation: vii‧si

viisi [with genitive]

1. in the way or manner of, like

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

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈviːsi/, [ˈvʲiːsʲi]
• Rhymes: -iːsi
• Hyphenation: vii‧si

viisi

1. alternative form of viis