aika

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯kɑ/, [ˈɑi̯kɑ]

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• Rhymes: -ɑikɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ai‧ka

From Proto-Finnic *aika, possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic (see the Proto-Finnic entry for more).

aika

1. time (temporal distance or duration)

   Se vaatii pitkän ajan. ― It takes a long time.

   kahden viikon ajaksi ― for (a period of) two weeks

2. time (moment or period in time), moment

   tähän aikaan vuodesta ― this time of year

   Vanhat hyvät ajat ovat palanneet. ― The good old times have returned.

   Synonym: hetki

3. appointment (arranged meeting)

   Minulla on aika lääkärille kello kymmeneltä. ― I have a doctor's appointment at ten o'clock.

• Inflection of this word may seem somewhat irregular but it actually follows general rules. The k disappears in weak grades and because the i is inevitably pronounced as j between two vowels this is reflected in the spelling.

• aikuinen

Probably from aika (etymology 1).[1]

aika (not comparable, only used attributively, indeclinable)

1. quite

   Synonyms: aikamoinen, melkoinen

   Hän on aika persoona. ― He is quite a personality.

2. Synonym of aimo.

Indeclinable.

aika (not comparable)

1. quite, rather, fairly (a moderate qualifier)

   Summa on aika suuri. ― The sum is quite large.

   Tänään on aika kaunis ilma. ― It’s quite beautiful weather today.

   Synonyms: (colloquial) aikas, melko

• aivan

From Proto-Finnic *aika. Cognates include Finnish aika and Estonian aeg.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯kɑ/, [ˈɑi̯k]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯kɑ/, [ˈɑi̯ɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑi̯kɑ
• Hyphenation: ai‧ka

aika

1. time
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 29:

     Adverbat näyttäät paikkaa, tappaa, määrää, aikaa tali muuta obstojatelstvaa.

     Adverbs indicate place, habit, amount, time or other circumstances.

   • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 6:

     Lapset, kuunelkaa kaik! Jo ono şkouluu aika!

     Children, listen everyone! It is already time for school!

2. epoch, age
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova; V. G. Erdeli, Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, transl., Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7:

     Jo entisist ajoist, päiväist päivää inmihiset näkivät, jot päivyt liikkuu taivast mööt.

     Already since ancient times, day in day out people saw, that the Sun moves along the sky.

3. (grammar) tense
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 104:

     Sitä kutsutaa tapahtuvaks ajaks tali preesensiks.

     These are called past tense or present.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 24
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 5
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 62

aika

1. Rōmaji transcription of あいか

From Proto-Finnic *aika. Cognates include Finnish aika and Estonian aeg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯kɑ/
• Hyphenation: ai‧ka

aika (genitive ajan, partitive aikua)

1. (North Karelian) time

• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “время”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

aika

1. Romanization of ᠠᡳᡴᠠ

• IPA^(key): /à.ì.kā/

àìka

1. the plant Lecaniodiscus cupanioides

àì- (“negative nominalizing prefix”) +‎ kà (“to read, to count”)

• IPA^(key): /à.ì.kà/

àìkà

1. something unread
2. the act of not reading
3. something not counted
4. the act of not counting

• aláìkà (“one who does not read”)