ruškie

Karelian

Regional variants of ruškie

North Karelian (Viena)	ruškie
South Karelian (Tver)	ruškie

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ruskëda. Cognates include Finnish ruskea and Veps rusked.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈruʃkie̯/
• Hyphenation: ruš‧kie

Adjective

ruškie (genitive ruškien, partitive ruškieta / ruškieda)

1. red
2. ruddy
3. redhaired

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ruškie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ruškie	ruškiet
genitive	ruškien	ruškeijen
partitive	ruškieta	ruškeita
illative	ruškieh	ruškeih
inessive	ruškiešša	ruškeissa
elative	ruškiešta	ruškeista
adessive	ruškiella	ruškeilla
ablative	ruškielta	ruškeilta
translative	ruškiekši	ruškeiksi
essive	ruškiena	ruškeina
comitative	—	ruškeineh
abessive	ruškietta	ruškeitta

Tver Karelian declension of ruškie (type 6/pimie, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ruškie	ruškiet
genitive	ruškien	ruškein
partitive	ruškieda	ruškeida
illative	ruškieh	ruškeih
inessive	ruškiešša	ruškeissa
elative	ruškiešta	ruškeista
adessive	ruškiella	ruškeilla
ablative	ruškielda	ruškeilda
translative	ruškiekši	ruškeiksi
essive	ruškiena	ruškeina
comitative	ruškienke	ruškeinke
abessive	ruškietta	ruškeitta

Possessive forms of ruškie
1st person	ruškieni
2nd person	ruškieš
3rd person	ruškieh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ruškie”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ruskie”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ruskie”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN