meččo

See also: mecco

Karelian

Regional variants of meččo

North Karelian (Viena)	meččo
South Karelian (Tver)	meččo

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccoi. Cognates include Finnish metso.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet͡ʃːo/
• Hyphenation: meč‧čo

Noun

meččo (genitive mečon, partitive meččuo)

1. capercaillie

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of meččo (type 1/tyttö, čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	meččo	mečot
genitive	mečon	meččojen
partitive	meččuo	meččoja
illative	meččoh	meččoloih
inessive	mečošša	meččoloissa
elative	mečošta	meččoloista
adessive	mečolla	meččoloilla
ablative	mečolta	meččoloilta
translative	mečokši	meččoloiksi
essive	meččona	meččoloina
comitative	—	meččoloineh
abessive	mečotta	meččoloitta

Tver Karelian declension of meččo (type 1/tyttö čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	meččo	mečot
genitive	mečon	meččoloin
partitive	meččuo	meččoloida
illative	meččoh	meččoloih
inessive	mečošša	meččoloissa
elative	mečošta	meččoloista
adessive	mečolla	meččoloilla
ablative	mečolda	meččoloilda
translative	mečokši	meččoloiksi
essive	meččona	meččoloina
comitative	mečonke	meččoloinke
abessive	mečotta	meččoloitta

Possessive forms of meččo
1st person	meččoni
2nd person	meččoš
3rd person	meččoh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “meččo”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “глухарь”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN