itšä

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ikä, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *ikä. Cognates include Estonian iga, Finnish ikä, and Hungarian év.

Pronunciation

Noun

itšä

  1. age
  2. lifetime

Inflection

Declension of itšä (type VIII/päive, k- gradation)
singular plural
nominative itšä iäd
genitive itšije, itšii
partitive ittšä itšiite, itšii
illative ittšäse, ittšä itšiise
inessive iäz itšiiz
elative iässe itšiisse
allative iäle itšiile
adessive iälle itšiille
ablative iälte itšiilte
translative iässi itšiissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn