User talk:Rua/se-fi

helppo
Your comment: I checked this with another dictionary; it's an adverb in addition to the comparative.
 * If it is an adverb, then the Finnish equivalent would probably be helposti (Se kävi helposti. -- It went easily.) or possibly helppoa (Se oli helppoa. -- It was easy.) - but helppo is definitely not an adverb. --Hekaheka (talk) 23:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have two main dictionaries I work from, this one and a Norwegian one. In the Norwegian one, the following definitions are given:
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj.
 * adj. adj. [this is the comparative]
 * adv. adv.
 * I'm not sure if this helps at all. —CodeCat 00:12, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Then I'd say the the English equivalent for álkit is "easier" or "easily" and sometimes "easy" (with the verb "to be": "It was easy"). --Hekaheka (talk) 06:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

takakaihdin
This beats my imagination. Kaihdin means "curtain" and takakaihdin ("rear curtain") is used e.g. of a curtain that is installed in the rear windscreen of a car, but what the heck is takakaihdin sarvessa ("rear curtain in an antler")? --Hekaheka (talk) 06:13, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * DDS doesn't have anything on this either, though the paradigm generator at does recognise it. A Google search gives a few results:
 * has a picture with an explanation in French:, synonymous with.
 * has a bit in Swedish.
 * has an English explanation: "a small backward pointing tine on a reindeer antler, at the point where the antler bends forward"
 * I don't know if this helps much though. Sami terminology on reindeer can be rather specialised, so there's unlikely to be an equivalent in Finnish. —CodeCat 15:53, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

báljildit
The translation liikkua kaljupäisenä ("to move around bald-headed") sounds weird. Possibly should be liikkua avopäin ("to move around bareheaded"). --Hekaheka (talk) 10:22, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I found a Google hit in Norwegian that describes this as . We don't have an entry for, but it seems to mean bald or hairless. —CodeCat 15:58, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

säärevänä
Another strange usage. Säärevä comes from sääri ("leg") and is an adjective in the northern dialects meaning "long-legged" or pitkäjalkainen in standard Finnish. But liikuskella säärevänä ("to move around long-legged") doesn't seem to make sense. --Hekaheka (talk) 10:32, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * That is the translation I find on Google though:
 * "to walk off on long legs"
 * 
 * It seems to be another reindeer-specific term. —CodeCat 16:02, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Could it mean "to walk with long steps"? --Hekaheka (talk) 00:09, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. It's not in this list, but DDS translates as . The verb is then simply a derivative with the  suffix. The adjective looks like it might be derived too, but I can't find anything. —CodeCat 00:16, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

bihkahuvvat, bihkkaduvvat
Both are translated as tulla tervaiseksi ("to become tarry or covered with tar"). I suspect that either or both refer to the process in which a dying pine becomes tervas, i.e. becomes so saturated of the tar that the tree generates naturally that the wood becomes rot-resistant. This type of wood provides excellent firewood and valued construction material. The Finnish verb for this process is tervastua. --Hekaheka (talk) 10:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Both come from, which means just "tar" according to both dictionaries. —CodeCat 16:06, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

iežaskapitála
This page suggests you're right, thank you. —CodeCat 23:57, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

adni
There's no difference in Northern Sami between what are in Finnish the -va and -ja forms (present participle and agent noun). There is just one form that is used for both, historically cognate with the -ja form. —CodeCat 20:52, 15 December 2015 (UTC)