briha

Karelian

Regional variants of briha

North Karelian (Viena)	priha
South Karelian (Tver)	briha

Etymology

Possibly from Russian пригожий (prigožij). Cognates include Ludian priha, Veps priha and Livvi briha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrihɑ/
• Hyphenation: bri‧ha

Noun

briha (genitive brihan, partitive brihua)

1. (South Karelian) lad, guy

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of briha (type 4/kala no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	briha	brihat
genitive	brihan	brihoin
partitive	brihua	brihoida
illative	brihah	brihoih
inessive	brihašša	brihoissa
elative	brihašta	brihoista
adessive	brihalla	brihoilla
ablative	brihalda	brihoilda
translative	brihakši	brihoiksi
essive	brihana	brihoina
comitative	brihanke	brihoinke
abessive	brihatta	brihoitta

Possessive forms of briha
1st person	brihani
2nd person	brihaš
3rd person	brihah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “briha”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Livvi

Etymology

Possibly from Russian приго́жий (prigóžij). Cognates include Ludian priha, Veps priha and Karelian priha / briha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrʲihɑ/
• Hyphenation: bri‧ha

Noun

briha

1. lad, young man

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• brihačču

 

References

• Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 27