lounat

Ingrian

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *louna. Cognates include Finnish lounas and Estonian lõuna.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlou̯nɑt/, [ˈɫo̞u̯nəd]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlou̯nɑt/, [ˈɫo̞u̯nɑd̥]
• Rhymes: -ou̯nɑt
• Hyphenation: lou‧nat

Noun

lounat

1. south
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 30:

     Lounatta päi.

     Towards the south.

2. lunch, lunchtime
   • 1934, V. I. Junus, Lukukirja inkeroisia oppikoteja vart (neljäs klassa), Leningrad: Riikin Izdatelstvo Kirja, page 8:

     Siint ajast pappi hylkäis pocivoittamast trengille yhel kerraal suurust, lounatta ja iltaist.

     Ever since, the priest stopped treating the farmhand at once with breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Declension

Declension of lounat (type 7/kevät, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lounat	lounaet
genitive	lounaen	lounaein
partitive	lounatta	lounaeita
illative	lounaesse	lounaeisse
inessive	lounaees	lounaeis
elative	lounaest	lounaeist
allative	lounaelle	lounaeille
adessive	lounaeel	lounaeil
ablative	lounaelt	lounaeilt
translative	lounaeks	lounaeiks
essive	lounaenna, lounaeen	lounaeinna, lounaein
exessive1)	lounaent	lounaeint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

• itälounat
• lounain
• lounattaa
• lounattuuli
• länsilounat

 

References

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 275
• Natalia V. Kuznetsova (2009) Фонологические системы Ижорских диалектов [Phonological systems of Ingrian dialects], Saint-Petersburg: Institute for Linguistic Studies (PhD thesis), page 268
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[1], →ISBN, page 73