muakondie

Karelian

Regional variants of muakondie

North Karelian (Viena)	—
South Karelian (Tver)	muakondie

Etymology

From mua (“earth”) +‎ kondie (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuɑ̯ˌkondie̯/
• Hyphenation: mua‧kon‧die

Noun

muakondie (genitive muankondien, partitive muakondieda)

1. (South Karelian) mole

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of muakondie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	muakondie	muakondiet
genitive	muakondien	muakondein
partitive	muakondieda	muakondeida
illative	muakondieh	muakondeih
inessive	muakondiešša	muakondeissa
elative	muakondiešta	muakondeista
adessive	muakondiella	muakondeilla
ablative	muakondielda	muakondeilda
translative	muakondiekši	muakondeiksi
essive	muakondiena	muakondeina
comitative	muakondienke	muakondeinke
abessive	muakondietta	muakondeitta

Possessive forms of muakondie
1st person	muakondieni
2nd person	muakondieš
3rd person	muakondieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• (North Karelian) mykrä, muamykrä, (South Karelian) rotta, (dialectal) mygrä, muamygrä

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “muakondie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN