mygrä

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Ingrian

Kaks mygrää.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mükrä. Cognates include Finnish myyrä and Estonian mügri.

Pronunciation

Noun

mygrä

  1. vole
  2. Short for maamygrä (mole).

Declension

Declension of mygrä (type 3/koira, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mygrä mygrät
genitive mygrän mygriin
partitive mygrää mygriä
illative mygrää mygrii
inessive mygrääs mygriis
elative mygräst mygrist
allative mygrälle mygrille
adessive mygrääl mygriil
ablative mygrält mygrilt
translative mygräks mygriks
essive mygrännä, mygrään mygrinnä, mygriin
exessive1) mygränt mygrint
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.

Derived terms

References

  • V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 7
  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 323

Karelian

Regional variants of mygrä
North Karelian
(Viena)
mykrä
South Karelian
(Tver)
mygrä

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mükrä. Cognates include Finnish myyrä and Estonian mügri.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmyɡræ/
  • Hyphenation: myg‧rä

Noun

mygrä (genitive mygrän, partitive mygriä)

  1. (South Karelian, dialectal) Synonym of muakondie

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of mygrä (type 5/koira no gradation)
singular plural
nominative mygrä mygrät
genitive mygrän mygrin
partitive mygriä mygrie
illative mygräh mygrih
inessive mygräššä mygrissä
elative mygräštä mygristä
adessive mygrällä mygrillä
ablative mygräldä mygrildä
translative mygräkši mygriksi
essive mygränä mygrinä
comitative mygränke mygrinke
abessive mygrättä mygrittä
Possessive forms of mygrä
1st person mygräni
2nd person mygräš
3rd person mygräh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “mykrä”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN