pyhä

From Proto-Finnic *pühä, from Proto-Finno-Permic *pišä. Cognates include Erzya пежеть (pežeť, “sin”), Udmurt пож (pož, “dirty, foul”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpyhæ/, [ˈpyɦæ]
• Rhymes: -yhæ
• Hyphenation^(key): py‧hä

pyhä (comparative pyhempi, superlative pyhin)

1. holy, sacred

   pyhä sota ― holy war

   pyhät kirjoitukset ― sacred writings, Holy Writ

   pyhä ehtoollinen ― Holy Communion

2. (in compounds) Sunday, dominical, Sunday-go-to-meeting, holy etc.
3. (in compounds) taboo, border

   Pyhäjoki ― a border river (experienced as taboo)

• epäpyhä

pyhä

1. holiday; public holiday

   Synonym: pyhäpäivä

2. (dialectal or colloquial) Sunday
3. (capitalized) Saint

   Synonym: pyhimys

   Pyhä Yrjö ― Saint George

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• “pyhä”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• häpy

From Proto-Finnic *pühä. Cognates with Finnish pyhä and Estonian püha.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpyhæ/, [ˈpyhæ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpyhæ/, [ˈpyhæ]
• Rhymes: -yhæ
• Hyphenation: py‧hä

pyhä (comparative pyhemp)

1. holy

pyhä

Days of the week

Previous:	soovotta
Next:	esmessarki

1. fasting
2. Sunday

Declension of pyhä (type 3/koira, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	pyhä	pyhät
genitive	pyhän	pyhhiin
partitive	pyhhää	pyhhiä
illative	pyhhää	pyhhii
inessive	pyhäs	pyhis
elative	pyhäst	pyhist
allative	pyhälle	pyhille
adessive	pyhäl	pyhil
ablative	pyhält	pyhilt
translative	pyhäks	pyhiks
essive	pyhännä, pyhhään	pyhinnä, pyhhiin
exessive1)	pyhänt	pyhint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• (fasting): paasto

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “пюга”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 675
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 447

From Proto-Finnic *pühä. Cognates with Finnish pyhä and Estonian püha.

pyhä

1. holy