tammi

See also: Tammi

Finnish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *tammi. Cognate with Estonian tamm, Karelian tammi.

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɑmːi
  • Hyphenation: tam‧mi
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑmːi/

Noun

tammi

  1. oak
  2. pedunculate oak, Quercus robur

Declension
Inflection of tammi (Kotus type 7/ovi, no gradation)
nominative tammi tammet
genitive tammen tammien
partitive tammea tammia
illative tammeen tammiin
singular plural
nominative tammi tammet
accusative nom. tammi tammet
gen. tammen
genitive tammen tammien
partitive tammea tammia
inessive tammessa tammissa
elative tammesta tammista
illative tammeen tammiin
adessive tammella tammilla
ablative tammelta tammilta
allative tammelle tammille
essive tammena tammina
translative tammeksi tammiksi
instructive — tammin
abessive tammetta tammitta
comitative — tammineen
Synonyms
  • (Quercus robur): metsätammi
Compounds
compounds

Etymology 2

< Swedish stam (“trunk of a tree, archaically also axis”)

Noun

tammi

  1. (dialectal, archaic) heart, core, axis
Derived terms

Noun

tammi

  1. Abbreviation of tammikuu (“January”).

Etymology 3

< Swedish damm (“dam”)

Noun

tammi

  1. (dialectal) dam

Etymology 4

< Swedish damspel, dam (“checkers”) < French dame (“king: doubled piece in checkers”)

Noun

tammi

  1. checkers, draughts (boardgame)
  2. king (doubled piece in checkers)

Ingrian

Noun

tammi

  1. oak

Kanakanabu

Noun

tammi

  1. sweet potato

Karelian

Noun

tammi

  1. oak

Mayo

Noun

tammi (plural támmim)

  1. tooth

References
  • Collard, Howard; Collard, Elisabeth Scott (1984) Castellano-mayo, mayo-castellano (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 6)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 36, 185
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