mittõ

Livonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Estonian mitte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmitːə/, [ˈmitːːə]

Adverb

mittõ (chiefly in the negative)

  1. not (one), no-
    Synonym: mit
    mittõ ī’dtõno one
    mittõ midāgidnothing
    mittõ kunāgidnever
  2. (not) even

References

  • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “mittõ”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from mitta 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 *mitta.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmitːɑ/, [ˈmʲitːə̠]
  • Rhymes: -itːɑ
  • Hyphenation: mit‧tõ

Noun

mittõ

  1. measure
  2. scale, dimension

Inflection

Declension of mittõ (type III/jalkõ, tt-t gradation)
singular plural
nominative mittõ mitad
genitive mita mittojõ, mittoi
partitive mitta mittoitõ, mittoi
illative mittasõ, mitta mittoisõ
inessive mitaz mittoiz
elative mitassõ mittoissõ
allative mitalõ mittoilõ
adessive mitallõ mittoillõ
ablative mitaltõ mittoiltõ
translative mitassi mittoissi
*) 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), “mitta”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn