Lavvas

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Ingrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps related to Estonian laugas (muddle, pool).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Lavvas

  1. Luga (a river in Russia)
    • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 17-18:
      Vieretti munat vettee, // Laski pesän Laukahaa.
      It made the eggs roll into the sea, // It dropped the nest into the Luga.
    • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:
      Vaaƶnoimmat näist dialektoist ollaa Soikkolan dialekta, kumpaa läätää Soikkolan poolisaareel Koskisiin, Soikkolan, Mäkkiin, Loukkulan ja Someroisiin selsovettiloin kylliis, ja Laukaan dialekta, kumpaa läätää Laukaan joen varreel.
      The most important of these dialects are the Soikkola dialect, which is spoken on the Soikkola peninsula in the villages of the village Soviets of Koskiset, Soikkola, Mäkit, Loukkula and Someroiset, and the Laukaa dialect, which is spoken along the river Luga.
    • 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 14:
      Nagru ja ääni Laukan äärees.
      There is laughter and noise around the Luga.

Declension

Declension of Lavvas (type 2/patsas, auk-avv gradation)
singular plural
nominative Lavvas
genitive Laukaan
partitive Lavvasta, Lavvast
illative Laukaasse
inessive Laukaas
elative Laukaast
allative Laukaalle
adessive Laukaal
ablative Laukaalt
translative Laukaaks
essive Laukaanna, Laukaan
exessive1) Laukaant
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 254