väin

See also: vain

Estonian

Etymology

Cognate to Livonian vēna (port, Daugava). Compare Finnish väylä and Proto-Slavic *dveinā (the river Daugava). Also compare Finnish väinä, but this similarity in both form and meaning is not mentioned by EES. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

väin (genitive väina, partitive väina)

  1. strait

Declension

Further reading

  • väin in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat
  • väin in Metsmägi, Iris; Sedrik, Meeli; Soosaar, Sven-Erik (2012), Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut, →ISBN

Finnish

Noun

väin

  1. instructive plural of väki

Noun

väin

  1. instructive plural of väkä
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