valge

From Proto-Finnic *valkëda, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *wëlketa, from *walke or *wïlki (“light”). Cognate with Finnish valkea, Livonian vālda, Votic valkõa, Ingrian valkia, Karelian valgie, Livvi valgei, Ludian valged, Veps vauged, Northern Sami vielgat (from Proto-Samic *vielkëtē) and Eastern Mari волгыдо (volgydo, “light, brightness”); possibly also Erzya валдо (valdo, “light”), Moksha валда (valda, “light”) and Hungarian villám (“lightning”), világ (“light”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɑlɡ̊e/, [ˈvɑlɡ̊e̞]

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• Rhymes: -ɑlɡe
• Hyphenation: val‧ge

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget, comparative valgem, superlative kõige valgem or valgeim)

1. white (color)

   Jõuluvanal on pikk valge habe.

   Santa Claus has a long white beard.

   Antonym: must

   1. Covered in snow.

      Hommikuks oli maa valge.

      By the morning, the ground was covered in snow.

      Synonym: lumine

2. light, bright, illuminated

   valge suveöö ― a white summer night

   Väljas on veel valge.

   It's still bright outside.

   Synonym: hele

   Antonym: pime

3. Having light skin, belonging to the Caucasian race.

   valged lõuna-aafriklased ― white South Africans

   Synonym: valgenahaline

4. Related to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.

   Synonym: valgekaartlik

Declension of valge (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		valge	valged
accusative	nom.
	gen.	valge
genitive			valgete
partitive		valget	valgeid
illative		valgesse	valgetesse valgeisse
inessive		valges	valgetes valgeis
elative		valgest	valgetest valgeist
allative		valgele	valgetele valgeile
adessive		valgel	valgetel valgeil
ablative		valgelt	valgetelt valgeilt
translative		valgeks	valgeteks valgeiks
terminative		valgeni	valgeteni
essive		valgena	valgetena
abessive		valgeta	valgeteta
comitative		valgega	valgetega

• (light, bright, illuminated): hele
• (covered in snow): lumine
• (having light skin): valgenahaline
• (related to the White movement): valgekaartlik

• (antonym(s) of “white (color)”): must
• (antonym(s) of “light, bright, illuminated”): pime

valge (genitive valge, partitive valget)

1. The color white, something colored in white.

   Pruut oli üleni valges.

   The bride was dressed in all-white.

2. sunlight, illumination

   Synonym: päevavalgus

   Perenaine tõusis enne valget ja tegi hommikusöögi valmis.

   The housewife got up at the break of dawn and prepared breakfast.

3. A person having light skin, belonging to the Caucasian race.

   Synonym: valgenahaline

   Lõuna-Aafrika valged ― the white people of South Africa

4. A person belonging to the counterrevolutionary White movement during the Russian Civil War.

   Synonym: valgekaartlane

Declension of valge (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		valge	valged
accusative	nom.
	gen.	valge
genitive			valgete
partitive		valget	valgeid
illative		valgesse	valgetesse valgeisse
inessive		valges	valgetes valgeis
elative		valgest	valgetest valgeist
allative		valgele	valgetele valgeile
adessive		valgel	valgetel valgeil
ablative		valgelt	valgetelt valgeilt
translative		valgeks	valgeteks valgeiks
terminative		valgeni	valgeteni
essive		valgena	valgetena
abessive		valgeta	valgeteta
comitative		valgega	valgetega

• (sunlight): päevavalgus
• (a person having light skin): valgenahaline
• (a person belonging to the White movement): valgekaartlane

Colors in Estonian · värvid (layout · text)

valge	hall	must
punane; karmiinpunane	oranž; pruun	kollane; kreem
laimiroheline, kollakasroheline	roheline	mündiroheline; tumeroheline
tsüaansinine, rohekassinine; sinakasroheline, siniroheline	taevasinine, taevassinine	sinine
lilla, violetne; potisinine, indigosinine	fuksia, magentapunane; lilla, purpurne, purpurpunane	roosa

• valge in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “valge”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

valge

1. vocative masculine singular of valgus