tuvi

See also: tüvi and tyvi

Estonian

Kaljutuvi (Columba livia)

Tuvi leviala

Etymology

From Middle Low German dûve, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ, whence also English dove and German Taube.

Dialectal variants include tui (where the v has been lost) and tuuvi, compare also Ingrian tuuvi. See also turteltuvi. First attested in 1632.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuvi/, [ˈtuvi]
• Rhymes: -uvi
• Hyphenation: tu‧vi

Noun

tuvi (genitive tuvi, partitive tuvi)

1. dove, pigeon (Columba)

   parem varblane peos kui tuvi katusel ― a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (literally, “better a sparrow in the palm than a pigeon on the roof”)

Declension

Declension of tuvi (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tuvi	tuvid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tuvi
genitive			tuvide
partitive		tuvi	tuvisid
illative		tuvisse	tuvidesse
inessive		tuvis	tuvides
elative		tuvist	tuvidest
allative		tuvile	tuvidele
adessive		tuvil	tuvidel
ablative		tuvilt	tuvidelt
translative		tuviks	tuvideks
terminative		tuvini	tuvideni
essive		tuvina	tuvidena
abessive		tuvita	tuvideta
comitative		tuviga	tuvidega

Derived terms

• tuvike
• tuvikene
• tuvila
• tuviline

 

Compounds

• ilutuvi
• kaelustuvi
• kaljutuvi
• kirjatuvi
• kodutuvi
• kroontuvi
• lihatuvi
• maatuvi
• metstuvi
• postituvi
• pugutuvi
• rahutuvi
• rändtuvi
• turteltuvi
• õõnetuvi

 

• tuvihall
• tuvikarva
• tuvikasvataja
• tuvikasvatus
• tuvikong
• tuvimaja
• tuvimuna
• tuvipaar
• tuviparv
• tuvipost
• tuvisinine
• tuvisõnnik
• tuviõun

 

References

• tuvi in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “tuvi”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• Jüri Viikberg (2016) “tuvi”, in [ASL] Alamsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [Low German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)

Latvian

Adjective

tuvi

1. nominative plural masculine of tuvs