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Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *icä, from Proto-Uralic *ićä. Cognate with Finnish isä, Estonian isa, Northern Sámi áhcci and Hungarian ős.
Pronunciation
Noun
izā
- father
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- izā pierrõ
- to be the spitting image of one's father (lit. "after father")
- ma neiz eņtš izzõ unsõ
- I saw my father in a dream
- mēg izāks keimõ miersõ
- me and my father were going to sea (lit. "we with father...")
- mēg mǟdlõm eņtš ižḑi
- we remember our fathers
- ta lǟb eņtš izā riekkõ
- he is following in his father's footsteps (lit. "he is going his father's path")
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