sarvi – Finnish noun declension

Finnish noun forms of sarvi

Noun type: 7

Characteristics

Singular

Nominativesarvi
Partitivesarvea
Genetivesarven
Accusativesarven
Inessivesarvessa
Elativesarvesta
Illativesarveen
Adessivesarvella
Ablativesarvelta
Allativesarvelle
Essivesarvena
Translativesarveksi
Abessivesarvetta

Plural

Nominativesarvet
Partitivesarvia
Genetivesarvien
Accusativesarvet
Inessivesarvissa
Elativesarvista
Illativesarviin
Adessivesarvilla
Ablativesarvilta
Allativesarville
Essivesarvina
Translativesarviksi
Abessivesarvitta
Instructivesarvin
Comitativesarvine

Sample Sentences

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sarvi (compare Estonian sarv), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *śarwe (compare Erzya сюро (śuro) and Hungarian szarv), borrowed from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćr̥Hwa- (compare Avestan 𐬯𐬭𐬏 (srū, “horn, claw, talon”), 𐬯𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬁 (sruuā, “horn”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Doublet of hirvi. See: Hungarian Nouns 'szarv'.

Verbs referencing "sarvi"

Hungarian Nouns szarv, Russian Nouns мамонт.

Nouns inflected like sarvi

alpi, appi, arki, arpi, haahti, hanhi, hanki, happi, hapsi, hauki, helmi, helpi, henki, hetki, hiki, hirvi, hyttysparvi, impi, indigosini, joki, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)