kankaš
Karelian
[edit]| North Karelian (Viena) |
kankaš |
|---|---|
| South Karelian (Tver) |
kangaš |
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *kangas. Cognates include Finnish kangas and Veps kangaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kankaš (genitive kankahan, partitive kankašta)
- (North Karelian) cloth, fabric
- (North Karelian) dunes overgrown with heather
Declension
[edit]| Viena Karelian declension of kankaš (type 18/vieraš, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kankaš | kankahat | |
| genitive | kankahan | kankahien | |
| partitive | kankašta | kankahie | |
| illative | kankahah | kankahih | |
| inessive | kankahašša | kankahissa | |
| elative | kankahašta | kankahista | |
| adessive | kankahalla | kankahilla | |
| ablative | kankahalta | kankahilta | |
| translative | kankahakši | kankahiksi | |
| essive | kankahana | kankahina | |
| comitative | — | kankahineh | |
| abessive | kankahatta | kankahitta | |
| Possessive forms of kankaš | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | kankahani | |
| 2nd person | kankahaš | |
| 3rd person | kankahah | |
| *) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses. | ||
References
[edit]- P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kankas”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN