ahku

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Karelian

Regional variants of ahku
North Karelian
(Viena) 		ahku
South Karelian
(Tver) 		ahku

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ahku. Cognates include Finnish ahku and Veps ahkud.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑhku/
  • Hyphenation: ah‧ku

Noun

ahku (genitive ahun, partitive ahkuo)

  1. sediment, pulp

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ahku (type 1/tyttö, k- gradation)
singular plural
nominative ahku ahut
genitive ahun ahkujen
partitive ahkuo ahkuja
illative ahkuh ahkuloih
inessive ahušša ahkuloissa
elative ahušta ahkuloista
adessive ahulla ahkuloilla
ablative ahulta ahkuloilta
translative ahukši ahkuloiksi
essive ahkuna ahkuloina
comitative — ahkuloineh
abessive ahutta ahkuloitta
Tver Karelian declension of ahku (type 1/tyttö k- gradation)
singular plural
nominative ahku ahut
genitive ahun ahkuloin
partitive ahkuo ahkuloida
illative ahkuh ahkuloih
inessive ahušša ahkuloissa
elative ahušta ahkuloista
adessive ahulla ahkuloilla
ablative ahulda ahkuloilda
translative ahukši ahkuloiksi
essive ahkuna ahkuloina
comitative ahunke ahkuloinke
abessive ahutta ahkuloitta
Possessive forms of ahku
1st person ahkuni
2nd person ahkuš
3rd person ahkuh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ahku”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ahku”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN
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