mettso

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccoi. Cognates include Finnish metso.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmet͡sːo/,
  • Rhymes: -et͡sːo
  • Hyphenation: met‧tso

Noun

mettso

  1. wood grouse, capercaillie

Inflection

Declension of mettso (type II/võrkko, tts-ts gradation)
singular plural
nominative mettso metsod
genitive metso mettsojõ, mettsoi
partitive mettsoa mettsoitõ, mettsoi
illative mettsosõ, mettso mettsoisõ
inessive metsoz mettsoiz
elative metsossõ mettsoissõ
allative metsolõ mettsoilõ
adessive metsollõ mettsoillõ
ablative metsoltõ mettsoiltõ
translative metsossi mettsoissi
*) 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) “mettso”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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