sooja

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooja (“protection, warm”), borrowed from Proto-Iranian *caHyáH. Cognates include Finnish suoja (“shelter, thaw”) and Estonian soe (“warm”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsoːja/

Noun

sooja (genitive soojan, partitive soojaa)

  1. protection
  2. thaw
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:
      Kuin ono sooja vesi.
      The water is like thaw.

Declension
Inflection of sooja
singular plural
nominative sooja soojat
genitive soojan soojiin
partitive soojaa soojiia
illative soojaa soojii
inessive soojaaz soojiiz
elative soojast soojist
allative soojalle soojille
adessive soojaal soojiil
ablative soojalt soojilt
translative soojaks soojiks
essive soojaan soojiin

References
  • Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)‎, page 163
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