mettse

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmet͡sːæ/,
  • Rhymes: -et͡sːæ
  • Hyphenation: met‧tse

Noun

mettse

  1. forest

Inflection

Declension of mettse (type VIII/päive, tts-ts gradation)
singular plural
nominative mettse metsäd
genitive metsä mettsije, mettsii
partitive mettsä mettsiite, mettsii
illative mettsäse, mettsä mettsiise
inessive metsäz mettsiiz
elative metsässe mettsiisse
allative metsäle mettsiile
adessive metsälle mettsiille
ablative metsälte mettsiilte
translative metsässi mettsiissi
*) 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) “mettsä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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