vezi

See also: veži, veží, vēzi, Vēzi, vēzī, Vēzī, vēži, vězí, věži, věží, вези, and вежи

Karelian

Regional variants of *vezi*
North Karelian (Viena)	vesi
South Karelian (Tver)	vezi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veci. Cognates include Finnish vesi and Veps vezi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʋezʲi/
Hyphenation: ve‧zi

Noun

vezi (genitive vejen, partitive vettä)

(South Karelian) water

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of vezi (type 10/vezi, d-j gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	vezi	vejet
genitive	vejen	vezilöin
partitive	vettä	vezilöidä
illative	vezih	vezilöih
inessive	veješšä	vezilöissä
elative	veještä	vezilöistä
adessive	vejellä	vezilöillä
ablative	vejeldä	vezilöildä
translative	vejekši	vezilöiksi
essive	vezinä	vezilöinä
comitative	vejenke	vezilöinke
abessive	vejettä	vezilöittä

Possessive forms of vezi
1st person	vedeni
2nd person	vedeš
3rd person	vedeh
^*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

A. V. Punzhina (1994) “vezi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veci. Cognates include Finnish vesi and Estonian vesi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʋezi/
Hyphenation: ve‧zi
Rhymes: -ezi

Noun

vezi (genitive vien, partitive vetty)

water

Declension

Declension of vezi (Type 25/vezi, d- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	vezi	viet
genitive	vien	veziin
partitive	vetty	vezii
illative	vedeh	veziih
inessive	vies	veziis
elative	viespäi	veziispäi
allative	viele	veziile
adessive	viel	veziil
ablative	vielpäi	veziilpäi
translative	viekse	veziikse
essive	vienny	veziinny
abessive	viettäh	veziittäh
comitative	vienke	veziinke
instructive		veziiči
prolative	vieči

References

Tatjana Boiko (2019) “vezi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veci. Cognates include Finnish vesi and Veps vezi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvezʲi/
Rhymes: -ezʲi
Hyphenation: ve‧zi

Noun

vezi

water

Declension

Declension of vezi (Type 3/vezi, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	vezi	veded
genitive	veden	vediden
partitive	vett	vedid
illative	vedeh	vedihe
inessive	vedes	vediš
elative	vedespiä	vedišpiä
allative	vedele	vedile
adessive	vedel	vedil
ablative	vedelpiä	vedilpiä
translative	vedeks	vedikš
essive	veden	vedin
abessive	vedeta	vedita
^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

References

Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 485
M. Pahomov (2022) “vezi”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎^[1], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 190

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvezʲ/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ezʲ
Hyphenation: vezi

Verb

vezi

second-person singular present indicative of vedea
acuma vezi?
do you see now?
second-person singular present subjunctive of vedea
haide, vreau să vezi ceva
come on, I want you to see something
second-person singular imperative of vedea

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

vezi (Cyrillic spelling вези)

dative/locative singular of veza

Verb

vezi (Cyrillic spelling вези)

second-person singular imperative of vesti

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *veci, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wete.

Noun

vezi

water

Inflection

Inflection of vezi (inflection type 18/vezi)
nominative sing.	vezi
genitive sing.	veden
partitive sing.	vet
partitive plur.	vezid
	singular	plural
nominative	vezi	veded
accusative	veden	veded
genitive	veden	veziden
partitive	vet	vezid
essive-instructive	veden	vezin
translative	vedeks	vezikš

inessive	vedes	veziš
elative	vedespäi	vezišpäi
illative	vedehe	vezihe

adessive	vedel	vezil
ablative	vedelpäi	vezilpäi
allative	vedele	vezile

abessive	vedeta	vezita
comitative	vedenke	vezidenke
prolative	vetme	vezidme

approximative I	vedenno	vezidenno
approximative II	vedennoks	vezidennoks
egressive	vedennopäi	vezidennopäi

terminative I	vedehesai	vezihesai
terminative II	vedelesai	vezilesai
terminative III	vedessai	—

additive I	vedehepäi	vezihepäi
additive II	vedelepäi	vezilepäi

Derived terms

References

Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “вода”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika