kavi

See also: kävi

Faroese

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kavi m (genitive singular kava, uncountable)

Declension of kavi (singular only)
m1s	singular
m1s	indefinite	definite
nominative	kavi	kavin
accusative	kava	kavan
dative	kava	kavanum
genitive	kava	kavans

Alternative scripts

kavi m

Declension table of "kavi" (masculine)

Inherited from Sanskrit कपि (kapi). Doublet of kapi with lenited intervocalic stop.

kavi m

Declension table of "kavi" (masculine)

^ Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “kavi”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
^ Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 195.

kavi

Declension of kavi (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kavi	kavid
genitive	kavi	kavijõ, kavii
partitive	kavvia	kaviitõ, kavii
illative	kavvisõ, kavvi	kaviisõ
inessive	kaviz	kaviiz
elative	kavissõ	kaviissõ
allative	kavilõ	kaviilõ
adessive	kavillõ	kaviillõ
ablative	kaviltõ	kaviiltõ
translative	kavissi	kaviissi
^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) ^) the terminative** is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ^*) the comitative** is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kavi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn