Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”). Likely a recent learned borrowing, perhaps from French voïvode, German Woiwode or Swedish vojvod, as evidenced by the final vowel and the voiced stop /d/, which appears nominally only in recent loan words.
voivodi
| Inflection of voivodi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | voivodi | voivodit | |
| genitive | voivodin | voivodien | |
| partitive | voivodia | voivodeja | |
| illative | voivodiin | voivodeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | voivodi | voivodit | |
| accusative | nom. | voivodi | voivodit |
| gen. | voivodin | ||
| genitive | voivodin | voivodien | |
| partitive | voivodia | voivodeja | |
| inessive | voivodissa | voivodeissa | |
| elative | voivodista | voivodeista | |
| illative | voivodiin | voivodeihin | |
| adessive | voivodilla | voivodeilla | |
| ablative | voivodilta | voivodeilta | |
| allative | voivodille | voivodeille | |
| essive | voivodina | voivodeina | |
| translative | voivodiksi | voivodeiksi | |
| abessive | voivoditta | voivodeitta | |
| instructive | — | voivodein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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