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1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:
Oli enne kunigas, ja kunikaal oli kolt poikaa.
Once upon a time, there was a king and the king had three sons.
(Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)
1885, “Sprachproben: Das von Tenfel bezauberte Mädchen”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:
Ja suet, karhut laittoi metsää, itse mäni kunikaalle, mist hää nai.
And the wolves, the bears he left in the forest, and he himself went to the princess, which he had married.
(Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)
1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 118:
Se oli veel kunikaan aikaan. Miul oli siis kakstoist aastaikaa.
This was still in the tsar's time. I was twelve years old then.
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
Fedor Tumansky (1790) “куннигасъ”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 685
