ahinko

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Karelian

Regional variants of ahinko
North Karelian
(Viena) 		ahinko
South Karelian
(Tver) 		ahingo

Etymology

Cognate with Finnish ahdinko.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑhiŋko/
  • Hyphenation: a‧hin‧ko

Noun

ahinko (genitive ahinkon, partitive ahinkuo)

  1. (North Karelian) difficulty, issue

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ahinko (type 1/tyttö, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative ahinko ahinkot
genitive ahinkon ahinkojen
partitive ahinkuo ahinkoja
illative ahinkoh ahinkoloih
inessive ahinkošša ahinkoloissa
elative ahinkošta ahinkoloista
adessive ahinkolla ahinkoloilla
ablative ahinkolta ahinkoloilta
translative ahinkokši ahinkoloiksi
essive ahinkona ahinkoloina
comitative — ahinkoloineh
abessive ahinkotta ahinkoloitta
Possessive forms of ahinko
1st person ahinkoni
2nd person ahinkoš
3rd person ahinkoh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ahinko”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ahinko”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
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