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From Proto-Finnic *pühä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *pišä. Cognates include Erzya пежеть (pežeť, “sin”), Udmurt пож (pož, “dirty, foul”).

  • IPA(key): /ˈpyhæ/, [ˈpyɦæ]
  • Rhymes: -yhæ
  • Hyphenation(key): py‧hä

pyhä (comparative pyhempi, superlative pyhin)

  1. holy, sacred
    pyhä sota ― holy war
    pyhät kirjoitukset ― sacred writings, Holy Writ
    pyhä ehtoollinen ― Holy Communion
  2. (in compounds) Sunday, dominical, Sunday-go-to-meeting, holy etc.
  3. (in compounds) taboo, border
    Pyhäjoki ― a border river (experienced as taboo)

pyhä

  1. holiday; public holiday
    Synonym: pyhäpäivä
  2. (dialectal or informal) Sunday
  3. (capitalized) Saint
    Synonym: pyhimys
    Pyhä Yrjö ― Saint George
  • Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *pühä. Cognates with Finnish pyhä and Estonian püha.

pyhä (comparative pyhemp)

  1. holy

pyhä

Days of the week
Previous: soovotta
Next: esmessarki
  1. fasting
  2. Sunday
Declension of pyhä (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative pyhä pyhät
genitive pyhän pyhhiin
partitive pyhhää pyhhiä
illative pyhhää pyhhii
inessive pyhäs pyhis
elative pyhäst pyhist
allative pyhälle pyhille
adessive pyhäl pyhil
ablative pyhält pyhilt
translative pyhäks pyhiks
essive pyhännä, pyhhään pyhinnä, pyhhiin
exessive1) pyhänt pyhint
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.
  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “пюга”, 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 675
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 447

From Proto-Finnic *pühä. Cognates with Finnish pyhä and Estonian püha.

pyhä

  1. holy

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