kunitsa

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Ingrian

Kunitsa.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian куница (kunica).

Pronunciation

Noun

kunitsa

  1. marten
    • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 37:
      Lintuloin ja orav[o]in jälest jahtiijaat öittee kunitsat, horjokat ja soobolit.
      After the birds and squirrels the martens, polecats and sables hunt at night.

Declension

Declension of kunitsa (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kunitsa kunitsat
genitive kunitsan kunitsoin
partitive kunitsaa kunitsoja
illative kunitsaa kunitsoihe
inessive kunitsaas kunitsois
elative kunitsast kunitsoist
allative kunitsalle kunitsoille
adessive kunitsaal kunitsoil
ablative kunitsalt kunitsoilt
translative kunitsaks kunitsoiks
essive kunitsanna, kunitsaan kunitsoinna, kunitsoin
exessive1) kunitsant kunitsoint
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.

Synonyms

References

  • Fedor Tumansky (1790) “куница”, 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 703