From Proto-Finnic *poika, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pojka. Cognate to e.g. Finnish poika, Estonian poeg and Hungarian fiú. The nominative stem is irregular (ˣpȱiga would be expected), but may reflect analogy to the inflection type lēba : partitive leibõ. However, there are no defined irregular nouns in Livonian, since this noun like others were listed under declension numerical indexes that also contain notable irregularly-declined personal pronouns.
pūoga
| singular (ikšlug) | plural (pǟgiņlug) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīv) | pūoga | pūogad |
| genitive (genitīv) | pūoga | pūogad |
| partitive (partitīv) | pȯigõ | pȯigḑi |
| dative (datīv) | pūogan | pūogadõn |
| instrumental (instrumentāl) | pūogaks | pūogadõks |
| illative (illatīv) | pȯigõ | pȯigži |
| inessive (inesīv) | pūogas | pȯigši |
| elative (elatīv) | pūogast | pȯigšti |