kieli

From Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognates include Karelian kieli, Estonian keel, Northern Sami giella, Moksha кяль (kjalʹ), Erzya кель (kelʹ), Khanty кӧл (köl) and Nganasan сиәде.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/, [ˈkie̞̯li]

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• Rhymes: -ieli
• Syllabification^(key): kie‧li

kieli

1. (anatomy) tongue (organ)
2. language (form of communication)
3. (music) string (tightly tensioned wire that produces a tone)
4. (music) reed (vibrating part in the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument)
5. tang, tongue, projecting part
6. tongue (in a shoe)

   Synonym: iltti

Can be used to distinguish meanings in terms for languages, such as islanti (“Icelandic”) being replaced with the more precise islannin kieli (literally "the language of Icelandic; Icelandic language"). In this case, the preceding word is in genitive. This is used particularly when speaking where there is no discernible difference between Islanti (“Iceland”) and islanti (“Icelandic (language)”) without relying on context.

• nouns: kieleke
• adjectives: kielellinen, kielevä, kielinen
• verbs: kieliä

• kielen päällä
• kieli solmussa
• purra kieltänsä = to bite one's tongue (to leave something unsaid)
• pitää kieli keskellä suuta = to watch one’s words (be careful what one says)

• Kven: kieli
• Meänkieli: kieli

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/, [ˈkie̞̯li] (indicative)
• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯liˣ/, [ˈkie̞̯li(ʔ)] (imperative, connegative)
• Rhymes: -ieli
• Syllabification^(key): kie‧li

kieli

1. third-person singular past indicative of kieliä
2. present active indicative connegative of kieliä
3. second-person singular present imperative of kieliä
4. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of kieliä

• "kieli" in Kielitoimiston sanakirja (Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish).

• keili, leiki, liike

From Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle. Cognates include Finnish kieli and Estonian keel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯lʲi/
• Hyphenation: kie‧li

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieltä or kieldä)

1. tongue
2. language
3. clanger, clapper

• A. V. Punzhina (1994), “kiel'i”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015), “язык”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

From Finnish kieli, from Proto-Finnic *keeli, from Proto-Uralic *käle.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieltä)

1. tongue
2. language

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 293

From Proto-Finnic *keeli. Cognates include Finnish kieli and Estonian keel.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkie̯li/
• Hyphenation: kie‧li

kieli (genitive kielen, partitive kieldy)

1. tongue
2. language
3. clapper (of a bell)

(compounds):

• Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 10
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 105