akka

From Proto-Finnic *akka. Northern Sami áhkku is possibly an old loan from Finnish, explaining the irregular correspondence of -a- to -á-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑkːɑ/, [ˈɑ̝kːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑkːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ak‧ka

akka

1. hag, crone (old woman)
2. (derogatory) woman; wife; hag, witch
3. (informal, chess, card games) queen, bitch

   hertta-akka ― queen of hearts

• (old woman): eukko
• (woman): nainen, ämmä, muija
• (wife): vaimo, eukko, muija, rouva
• (queen): kuningatar, rouva

• ukko

• korttipakka

• “akka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• kaka

From Proto-Finnic *akka. Cognates include Finnish akka and Veps ak.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑkːɑ/, [ˈɑkː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑkːɑ/, [ˈɑkːɑ]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑkːɑ/, [ˈɑkːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑkː, -ɑkːɑ
• Hyphenation: ak‧ka

akka

1. old woman
   • 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 47:

     On peeni ja niin vohma veel,
     Ni anteeks antaa voip,
     A akalle, miks jurma on,
     Saap antaa pleettiä!"

     He is young and such a fool,
     That he can forgive,
     But the old woman, how brave she is,
     He's able to give the whip!"

2. Synonym of akko (“shingle holder”)

• ämmä, ämmö, staruhha

• ukko, äijä, starikka (“old man”)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 9
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 18

akka

1. Rōmaji transcription of あっか

From Proto-Finnic *akka. Cognates include Finnish akka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑkːɑ/
• Hyphenation: ak‧ka

akka (genitive akan, partitive akkua)

1. wife
2. old woman; hag

• (old woman): (dialectal, derogatory) ämmä

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “akka”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

• (noun): IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.kɑ/
• (verb): IPA^(key): /²ɑk.kɑ/

akka n

1. definite plural of akk

akka (present tense akkar, past tense akka, past participle akka, passive infinitive akkast, present participle akkande, imperative akka/akk)

1. alternative form of akke

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• Hyphenation: akk‧a

akka f (genitive ǫkku, plural ǫkkur)

1. arrow

• IPA^(key): [akka]

akka

1. (transitive) to make (a curiara, a kind of wooden canoe)

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “akka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon