suomelaine
Livvi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Suomi (“Finland”) + -laine. Cognates include Finnish suomalainen and Estonian soomlane.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suomelaine (genitive suomelaizen, partitive suomelaistu)
- a Finn, either by ethnicity or nationality
- a Lutheran
- an Orthodox Christian Karelian living in Finland, a Karelian from Raja-Karjala
Adjective
[edit]suomelaine (genitive suomelaizen, partitive suomelaistu)
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect][1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 12
- Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 266
- Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “suomelaine”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja[2], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN