ahku

Karelian

Regional variants of ahku

North Karelian (Viena)	ahku
South Karelian (Tver)	ahku

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ahku. Cognates include Finnish ahku and Veps ahkud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑhku/
• Hyphenation: ah‧ku

Noun

ahku (genitive ahun, partitive ahkuo)

1. sediment, pulp

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of ahku (type 1/tyttö, k- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ahku	ahut
genitive	ahun	ahkujen
partitive	ahkuo	ahkuja
illative	ahkuh	ahkuloih
inessive	ahušša	ahkuloissa
elative	ahušta	ahkuloista
adessive	ahulla	ahkuloilla
ablative	ahulta	ahkuloilta
translative	ahukši	ahkuloiksi
essive	ahkuna	ahkuloina
comitative	—	ahkuloineh
abessive	ahutta	ahkuloitta

Tver Karelian declension of ahku (type 1/tyttö k- gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	ahku	ahut
genitive	ahun	ahkuloin
partitive	ahkuo	ahkuloida
illative	ahkuh	ahkuloih
inessive	ahušša	ahkuloissa
elative	ahušta	ahkuloista
adessive	ahulla	ahkuloilla
ablative	ahulda	ahkuloilda
translative	ahukši	ahkuloiksi
essive	ahkuna	ahkuloina
comitative	ahunke	ahkuloinke
abessive	ahutta	ahkuloitta

Possessive forms of ahku
1st person	ahkuni
2nd person	ahkuš
3rd person	ahkuh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “ahku”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ahku”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN