mettse

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Pronunciation
  • (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmet͡sːæ/, [ˈmet͡sːə]
  • Rhymes: -et͡sːæ
  • Hyphenation: met‧tse

Noun

mettse

  1. forest

Inflection
Declension of mettse (type VIII/päive, tts-ts gradation)
singular plural
nominative mettse metsäd
genitive metsä mettsije, mettsi
partitive mettsä mettsite, mettsi
illative mettsä, mettsäse mettsije, mettsise
inessive metsäz mettsiz
elative metsässe mettsisse
allative metsäle mettsile
adessive metsälle mettsille
ablative metsälte mettsilte
translative metsässi mettsissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References
  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎, 2 edition, Tallinn
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