karvõ

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from karva according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:About Votic or recent spelling standards of the language.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *karva.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈkɑrvɑ/, [ˈkɑrvə̠]
  • (Jõgõperä) IPA(key): /ˈkɑrvɑ/, [ˈkɑrv]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrvɑ
  • Hyphenation: kar‧võ

Noun

karvõ

  1. hair
  2. color

Inflection

Declension of karvõ (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative karvõ karvõd
genitive karva karvojõ, karvoi
partitive karva karvoitõ, karvoi
illative karvasõ, karva karvoisõ
inessive karvõz karvoiz
elative karvõssõ karvoissõ
allative karvõlõ karvoilõ
adessive karvõllõ karvoillõ
ablative karvõltõ karvoiltõ
translative karvõssi karvoissi
*) 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), “karva”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn