kavi

See also: kävi

Faroese

From Old Norse kafa (“to submerge, immerse”) or kaf (“submersion, snowdrift”), related to Old Norse kefja, kvefja (“to submerge, sink, drown, smother”), from Proto-Germanic *kwabjaną (“to press, press down, drown”).

kavi m (genitive singular kava, uncountable)

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
partitive	kavvia	kaviit
illative	kavisõ, kavvi	kaviisõ
inessive	kaviz	kaviiz
elative	kaviss	kaviiss
allative	kavillõ	kaviillõ
adessive	kavill	kaviill
ablative	kavilt	kaviilt
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. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects.

Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “kavi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn