purgu

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Karelian

Regional variants of purgu
North Karelian
(Viena) 		purku
South Karelian
(Tver) 		purgu

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *purku. Cognates include Finnish purku and Veps purg.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpurɡu/
  • Hyphenation: pur‧gu

Noun

purgu (genitive purrun, partitive purguo)

  1. (South Karelian) snowstorm, blizzard

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of purgu (type 1/tyttö rg-rr gradation)
singular plural
nominative purgu purrut
genitive purrun purguloin
partitive purguo purguloida
illative purguh purguloih
inessive purrušša purguloissa
elative purrušta purguloista
adessive purrulla purguloilla
ablative purrulda purguloilda
translative purrukši purguloiksi
essive purguna purguloina
comitative purrunke purguloinke
abessive purrutta purguloitta
Possessive forms of purgu
1st person purguni
2nd person purguš
3rd person purguh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “purgu”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
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