lehk
Estonian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic. Cognate with obsolete Finnish löhkä.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlehk/, [ˈlehk]
- Rhymes: -ehk
- Hyphenation: lehk
Noun
lehk (genitive leha, partitive lehka)
- smell, stink
- (obsolete) smell (a property of many substances that is perceived through the nose, as the sense of smell)
Declension
| Declension of lehk (ÕS type 22i/külm, hk-h gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | lehk | lehad | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | leha | ||
| genitive | lehkade | ||
| partitive | lehka | lehki lehkasid | |
| illative | lehka lehasse |
lehkadesse lehisse | |
| inessive | lehas | lehkades lehis | |
| elative | lehast | lehkadest lehist | |
| allative | lehale | lehkadele lehile | |
| adessive | lehal | lehkadel lehil | |
| ablative | lehalt | lehkadelt lehilt | |
| translative | lehaks | lehkadeks lehiks | |
| terminative | lehani | lehkadeni | |
| essive | lehana | lehkadena | |
| abessive | lehata | lehkadeta | |
| comitative | lehaga | lehkadega | |
Derived terms
Compounds
- higilehk
- kopituslehk
- kõrbelehk
- laibalehk
- mädalehk
- peldikulehk
- raipelehk
- roisulehk
- surnulehk
- viinalehk
- virtsalehk
References
- lehk in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “lehk”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “lehk”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012