kukuruza

See also: kukurūza and kukurūzā

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From kukuruz (“corn, maize”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kukurǔːza/
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ru‧za

Noun

kukurúza f (Cyrillic spelling кукуру́за)

1. cornbread

Declension

Declension of kukuruza

	singular	plural
nominative	kukuruza	kukuruze
genitive	kukuruze	kukuruza
dative	kukuruzi	kukuruzama
accusative	kukuruzu	kukuruze
vocative	kukuruzo	kukuruze
locative	kukuruzi	kukuruzama
instrumental	kukuruzom	kukuruzama

Descendants

• →? Albanian: kukurec
  • → Greek: κοκορέτσι (kokorétsi)
    • → English: kokoretsi

Votic

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кукуруза (kukuruza).

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /kukuˈruzɑ/, [kukuˈruzɑ], /ˈkukuruzɑ/, [ˈkukuˌruzɑ]
• Rhymes: -uzɑ
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ru‧za

Noun

kukuruza

1. maize, corn

Inflection

Declension of kukuruza (type V/poikõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kukuruza	kukuruzad
genitive	kukuruza	kukuruzijõ, kukuruzii
partitive	kukuruzza	kukuruziitõ, kukuruzii
illative	kukuruzzasõ, kukuruzza	kukuruziisõ
inessive	kukuruzaz	kukuruziiz
elative	kukuruzassõ	kukuruziissõ
allative	kukuruzalõ	kukuruziilõ
adessive	kukuruzallõ	kukuruziillõ
ablative	kukuruzaltõ	kukuruziiltõ
translative	kukuruzassi	kukuruziissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kukuruza”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn