/ˈkærhi/, [ˈk̟ærhi]
OriginIn the current sense, coined by Finnish physician and philologist Elias Lönnrot in 1860, based on the dialectal word kärhi (“pine whorl”). Probably a back-formation of the dialectal adjective kärheä (“rough, surly”), itself a fronted variant of karhea.
- tendril (thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support)
Formskärhi(nominative, singular) · kärhet(nominative, plural) · kärhi(accusative, nominative, singular) · kärhet(accusative, nominative, plural) · kärhen(accusative, genitive, singular) · kärhet(accusative, genitive, plural) · kärhen(genitive, singular) · kärhien(genitive, plural) · kärheä(partitive, singular) · kärhiä(partitive, plural) · kärhessä(inessive, singular) · kärhissä(inessive, plural) · kärhestä(elative, singular) · kärhistä(elative, plural) · kärheen(illative, singular) · kärhiin(illative, plural) · kärhellä(adessive, singular) · kärhillä(adessive, plural) · kärheltä(ablative, singular) · kärhiltä(ablative, plural)