sobu

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sopa (“clothes”). Cognates include Finnish sopa and Estonian sõba.

The semantic shift "clothes" > "agreement" is comparable to the Finnish derivation of sopimus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsobu/
  • Hyphenation: so‧bu
  • Rhymes: -obu

Noun

sobu (genitive sovun, partitive sobuu)

  1. agreement

Derived terms

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References
  • Tatjana Boiko (2019), “sobu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN
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