veider
Estonian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Finnic *veiterä. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Cognate with Votic veitere (“quick, agile; brave”), dialectal Finnish veiterä (“lively, brisk; sharp”), Ingrian veiterä (“lively; fun”).
Adjective
veider (genitive veidra, partitive veidrat, comparative veidram, superlative kõige veidram)
- strange, odd or weird (appearing unusual, peculiar, causing astonishment or alienation)
- Synonyms: imelik, kummaline
- ta on veider mees
- he is a strange man
- rohu sees roomas veider elukas
- a strange creature crawled in the grass
- vajusin veidra ehitusega ebamugavasse tooli
- I sank into the oddly constructed, uncomfortable chair.
Declension
Declension of veider (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | veider | veidrad |
| genitive | veidra | veidrate |
| partitive | veidrat | veidraid |
| illative | veidrasse | veidratesse veidraisse |
| inessive | veidras | veidrates veidrais |
| elative | veidrast | veidratest veidraist |
| allative | veidrale | veidratele veidraile |
| adessive | veidral | veidratel veidrail |
| ablative | veidralt | veidratelt veidrailt |
| translative | veidraks | veidrateks veidraiks |
| terminative | veidrani | veidrateni |
| essive | veidrana | veidratena |
| abessive | veidrata | veidrateta |
| comitative | veidraga | veidratega |
Derived terms
- veidralt (“strangely, oddly, weirdly”)
See also
- ebatavaline, ebaharilik (“unusual”)
References
- veider in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
- veider in Sõnaveeb
- M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “veider”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)
- veider in Raadik, M., editor (2018), Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, →ISBN
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