kuore

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kooreh, possibly from Proto-Uralic *korɜ. Cognate with Karelian kuoreh, Veps koreh, Livvi kuorʹoi and possibly Komi-Zyrian [script needed] (gurina), Selkup [script needed] (k͔oor) and Kamassian [script needed] (kuru). Related to Russian ко́рюшка (kórjuška), likely a Finnic or earlier loan.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkuo̯reˣ/, [ˈkuo̞̯re̞(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -uore
  • Syllabification(key): kuo‧re

Noun

kuore

  1. European smelt, sparling (Osmerus eperlanus)
  2. smelt; also freshwater smelt, true smelt to distinguish from saltwater fish of other taxonomic families in the order Osmeriformes (any fish of family Osmeridae)
  3. herring smelt; more precisely called sillikuore in Finnish (any fish of the family Argentinidae)

Declension
Inflection of kuore (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation)
nominative kuore kuoreet
genitive kuoreen kuoreiden
kuoreitten
partitive kuoretta kuoreita
illative kuoreeseen kuoreisiin
kuoreihin
singular plural
nominative kuore kuoreet
accusative nom. kuore kuoreet
gen. kuoreen
genitive kuoreen kuoreiden
kuoreitten
partitive kuoretta kuoreita
inessive kuoreessa kuoreissa
elative kuoreesta kuoreista
illative kuoreeseen kuoreisiin
kuoreihin
adessive kuoreella kuoreilla
ablative kuoreelta kuoreilta
allative kuoreelle kuoreille
essive kuoreena kuoreina
translative kuoreeksi kuoreiksi
instructive — kuorein
abessive kuoreetta kuoreitta
comitative — kuoreineen
Possessive forms of kuore (type hame)
possessor singular plural
1st person kuoreeni kuoreemme
2nd person kuoreesi kuoreenne
3rd person kuoreensa

Synonyms

Hypernyms
  • kuorekala (fish of the order Osmeriformes)

Derived terms
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