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1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:
Kunikaal oli oikii käppiä saadu.
The king had a very beautiful garden.
(Note: The spelling has been normalised in accordance with the literary Ingrian language.)
1936, V. I. Junus, N. A. Iljin, Inkeroisin keelen oppikirja alkuşkouluja vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 49:
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.
*) 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) “saadu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
