hebone

Karelian

Regional variants of hebone
North Karelian
(Viena)
heponi
South Karelian
(Tver)
hebone

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hëpoinën. Cognates include Finnish hevonen and Estonian hobune.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhebonʲe/
  • Hyphenation: he‧bo‧ne

Noun

hebone (genitive hebozen, partitive hevosʹtʹa, diminutive hebozʹut)

  1. horse

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of hebone (type 15/naine, b-v gradation)
singular plural
nominative hebone hebozet
genitive hebozen hebozien
partitive hevosʹtʹa hebozie
illative hebozeh hebozih
inessive hebozešša hebozissa
elative hebozešta hebozista
adessive hebozella hebozilla
ablative heboizelda hebozilda
translative hebozekši heboziksi
essive hebozena hebozina
comitative hebozenke hebozinke
abessive hebozetta hebozitta
prolative hebozečči hebozičči
instructive hebozin
Possessive forms of hebone
1st person hebozeni
2nd person hebozeš
3rd person hebozeh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

  • (North Karelian) hepo; (South Karelian) hebo

References

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994), “hebone”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
  • Pertti Virtaranta; Raija Koponen (2009), “hepoine”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN