mettse
Votic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *meccä.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mettse
Inflection
[edit]| Declension of mettse (type VIII/päive, tts-ts gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | mettse | metsäd |
| genitive | metsä | mettsije, mettsii |
| partitive | mettsä | mettsiite, mettsii |
| illative | mettsäse, mettsä | mettsiise |
| inessive | metsäz | mettsiiz |
| elative | metsässe | mettsiisse |
| allative | metsäle | mettsiile |
| adessive | metsälle | mettsiille |
| ablative | metsälte | mettsiilte |
| translative | metsässi | mettsiissi |
| *) 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
[edit]- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mettsä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn