izä

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Karelian

Regional variants of izä
North Karelian
(Viena) 		—
South Karelian
(Tver) 		izä

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *icä. Cognates include Finnish isä and Estonian isa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈizʲæ/
  • Hyphenation: i‧zä

Noun

izä (genitive izän, partitive iziä)

  1. (South Karelian) father

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of izä (type 5/koira no gradation)
singular plural
nominative izä izät
genitive izän izin
partitive iziä izie
illative izäh izih
inessive izäššä izissä
elative izäštä izistä
adessive izällä izillä
ablative izäldä izildä
translative izäkši iziksi
essive izänä izinä
comitative izänke izinke
abessive izättä izittä
Possessive forms of izä
1st person izäni
2nd person izäš
3rd person izäh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “izä”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “isä”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
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