adru

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Estonian

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Finnish haura (pondweed), dialectal hatru, which may or may not have been borrowed from Estonian.

Pronunciation

Noun

adru (genitive adru, partitive adrut)

  1. seaweed

Declension

Declension of adru (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative adru adrud
accusative nom.
gen. adru
genitive adrude
partitive adrut adrusid
illative adrusse adrudesse
inessive adrus adrudes
elative adrust adrudest
allative adrule adrudele
adessive adrul adrudel
ablative adrult adrudelt
translative adruks adrudeks
terminative adruni adrudeni
essive adruna adrudena
abessive adruta adrudeta
comitative adruga adrudega

Derived terms

Compounds

References

  • adru in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • adru”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *atra (compare Estonian ader, Finnish aura), from a Germanic language (compare Old Norse arðr), from Proto-Germanic *arþrą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑdru/
  • Hyphenation: ad‧ru
  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

adru

  1. ard
  2. plough, plow

Declension

Declension of adru (Type 3/jalgu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative adru adrat
genitive adran adroin
partitive adrua adroi
illative adrah adroih
inessive adras adrois
elative adraspäi adroispäi
allative adrale adroile
adessive adral adroil
ablative adralpäi adroilpäi
translative adrakse adroikse
essive adrannu adroinnu
abessive adrattah adroittah
comitative adranke adroinke
instructive adroin
prolative adrači

References

  • Tatjana Boiko (2019) Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 12