tšerä

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Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kerä.

Pronunciation

Noun

tšerä

  1. ball, clew (of thread, yarn)

Inflection

Declension of tšerä (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tšerä tšeräd
genitive tšerä tšerije, tšerii
partitive tšerrä tšeriite, tšerii
illative tšerräse, tšerrä tšeriise
inessive tšeräz tšeriiz
elative tšerässe tšeriisse
allative tšeräle tšeriile
adessive tšerälle tšeriille
ablative tšerälte tšeriilte
translative tšerässi tšeriissi
*) 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) “tšerä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn