ijen
Appearance
Karelian
[edit]North Karelian (Viena) |
ijen |
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South Karelian (Tver) |
igen |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *igen. Cognates include Finnish ien and Veps igin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ijen (genitive ikenen, partitive ijentä)
- (North Karelian) gum (of the mouth)
Declension
[edit]Viena Karelian declension of ijen (type 11/paimen, k-j gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | ijen | ikenet | |
genitive | ikenen | ikenien | |
partitive | ijentä | ikenie | |
illative | ikeneh | ikenih | |
inessive | ikeneššä | ikenissä | |
elative | ikeneštä | ikenistä | |
adessive | ikenellä | ikenillä | |
ablative | ikeneltä | ikeniltä | |
translative | ikenekši | ikeniksi | |
essive | ikeninä | ikeninä | |
comitative | — | ikenineh | |
abessive | ikenettä | ikenittä |
Possessive forms of ijen | ||
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1st person | ikeneni | |
2nd person | ikeneš | |
3rd person | ikeneh | |
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. |
References
[edit]- P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ijen”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN