kangas

kangas

1. plural of kanga

• Kagans, kagans, ngakas, sangak

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋːɑs/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋːɑ̝s̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋːɑs
• Hyphenation^(key): kan‧gas

From Proto-Finnic *kangas, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (compare Danish gang (“forty warp threads”), Middle High German ganc (“warp count (in weaving)”), Middle Low German ganc (“warp count (in weaving)”)).

kangas

1. cloth, fabric or textile (woven fabric)
2. material (cloth to be made into a garment)

• “1. kangas”, 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 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *kangas, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (“way, passage”) (compare German Gang), boreal forests being easily passable.

kangas

1. A soil type: firm, moraine ground covered with a relatively thin layer of organic topsoil called podsol

   Synonym: kangasmaa

2. A forest type growing on such soil, predominantly coniferous; boreal forest

   Synonym: kangasmetsä

Common element in place names and surnames, certainly more so than etymology 1.

• “2. kangas”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• Wikipedia articles on podsol and taiga

From Proto-Finnic *kangas. Cognates include Finnish kangas and Estonian kangas.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡɑs/, [ˈkɑŋɡəz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡɑs/, [ˈkɑŋɡ̊ɑʒ̥]
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋɡɑs/, [ˈkɑŋɡ̊ɑʒ̥]
• Rhymes: -ɑŋɡɑs
• Hyphenation: kan‧gas

kangas

1. fabric, cloth
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 44:

     Mamalle osti kangaste.

     He bought mum some fabric.

2. a type of soil, consisting of moraine ground covered by podzol
3. a type of forest growing on such soil

Declension of kangas (type 2/patsas, nk-ng gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kangas	kankaat
genitive	kankaan	kankain
partitive	kangasta, kangast	kankaita, kankaja
illative	kankaasse	kankaisse
inessive	kankaas	kankais
elative	kankaast	kankaist
allative	kankaalle	kankaille
adessive	kankaal	kankail
ablative	kankaalt	kankailt
translative	kankaaks	kankaiks
essive	kankaanna, kankaan	kankainna, kankain
exessive1)	kankaant	kankaint
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.

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кандасъ”, 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 695
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 53
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 133

kangas

1. fabric

Declension of kangas, ng-nk gradation singular plural nominative kangas kangahat genitive kankahan kankahien partitive kangasta kangahie inessive kankahassa kankahissa elative kankahasta kankahista illative kankahah kankahih adessive kankahalla kankahilla ablative kankahalta kankahilta essive kankahana kankahina translative kankahaksi kankahiksi abessive kankahatta kankahitta instructive kankahin comitative kankahineh