virka

virka

1. partitive/illative singular of virk

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɪɻ̥ka]

virka (third person singular past indicative virkaði, third person plural past indicative virkað, supine virkað)

1. to work, function, operate

   Tann gamli hátturin virkar ikki longur.

   The old method no longer works.

2. to seem

   Tað virkar so trupult at læra føroyskt.

   It seems so hard to learn Faroese.

Probably borrowed from Old Swedish virke, with possible influence from virka (etymology 2) with which it has been equated in the past.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkɑ/, [ˈʋirkɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irkɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vir‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): vir‧ka

virka

1. post, position, office, public office (public sector work)

   olla virassa / hoitaa virkaa ― to hold an office

   astua virkaan ― to assume one's office/post/responsibilities/duties, to be inaugurated/installed/inducted into office

   asettaa virkaan ― to inaugurate into office, install into office, induct into office

2. purpose, point, function

• “virka”, 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 1 July 2023

From Proto-Finnic *virka, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?] (compare Latvian verdze).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkɑ/, [ˈʋirkɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irkɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vir‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): vir‧ka

virka (dialectal)

1. line or row, especially of traps or snares

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkɑˣ/, [ˈʋirkɑ̝(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -irkɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vir‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): vir‧ka

virka

1. inflection of virkkaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• kirva

Borrowed from Danish virke from Old Norse virkja, from Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪr̥ka/
• Rhymes: -ɪr̥ka

virka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative virkaði, supine virkað)

1. (intransitive) to work, to function

• virkni (“activity, action, function”)

From Proto-Finnic *virka. Cognates include Finnish virka and dialectal Estonian virg.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkɑ/, [ˈʋirk]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈʋirkɑ/, [ˈʋirɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -irk, -irkɑ
• Hyphenation: vir‧ka

virka

1. necklace

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 669

• virket

virka

1. inflection of virke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Old Norse virkja, from Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną.

virka (present virkar, preterite virkade, supine virkat, imperative virka)

1. to crochet

• virkkrok
• virkning
• virknål

• arkiv, vikar