laivõ

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from laiva 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 *laiva, from Proto-Germanic *flawją. Cognates include Estonian laev.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈlɑi̯vɑ/, [ˈɫɑi̯və̠]
  • (Jõgõperä) IPA(key): /ˈlɑi̯vɑ/, [ˈɫɑi̯v]
  • Rhymes: -ɑi̯vɑ
  • Hyphenation: lai‧võ

Noun

laivõ

  1. ship, boat

Inflection

Declension of laivõ (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative laivõ laivõd
genitive laiva laivojõ, laivoi
partitive laiva laivoitõ, laivoi
illative laivasõ, laiva laivoisõ
inessive laivõz laivoiz
elative laivõssõ laivoissõ
allative laivõlõ laivoilõ
adessive laivõllõ laivoillõ
ablative laivõltõ laivoiltõ
translative laivõssi laivoissi
*) 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), “laiva”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn