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From Proto-Finnic *silmä, from Proto-Uralic *śilmä.[1]

  • IPA(key): /ˈsilmæ/, [ˈs̠ilmæ]
  • Rhymes: -ilmæ
  • Hyphenation(key): sil‧mä

silmä

  1. eye (organ of the body)
    omin silminwith one's own eyes
  2. eye (the hole in a needle)
  3. eye (the center of a hurricane)
  4. eye (a mark on an animal resembling an eye)
  5. eye (a bud of a potato)
    Synonym: itu
  6. eye (the ability to notice what others might miss)
  7. mesh, opening in a mesh or net
  1. ^ Junttila, Santeri, Kallio, Petri, Holopainen, Sampsa, Kuokkala, Juha, Pystynen, Juho, editors (2020–), “silmä”, in Suomen vanhimman sanaston etymologinen verkkosanakirja‎[1] (in Finnish), retrieved 2024-01-01
Kasin silmä.

From Proto-Finnic *silmä. Cognates include Finnish silmä and Estonian silm.

silmä

  1. eye
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59:

      Hiilest tehtii suuret silmät, lumipampust pität korvat.

      Out of coal large eyes were made, out of snowballs long ears.
Declension of silmä (type 3/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative silmä silmät
genitive silmän silmiin
partitive silmää silmiä
illative silmää silmii
inessive silmääs silmiis
elative silmäst silmist
allative silmälle silmille
adessive silmääl silmiil
ablative silmält silmilt
translative silmäks silmiks
essive silmännä, silmään silminnä, silmiin
exessive1) silmänt silmint
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) “силма”, 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 679
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 525
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[3], →ISBN, page 24