Karelian edit

Regional variants of greču
North Karelian
(Viena)
krečču
South Karelian
(Tver)
greču

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian греча (greča).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡret͡ʃu/
  • Hyphenation: gre‧ču

Noun edit

greču (genitive grečun, partitive grečuo)

  1. (South Karelian) buckwheat

Declension edit

Tver Karelian declension of greču (type 1/tyttö no gradation)
singular plural
nominative greču grečut
genitive grečun grečuloin
partitive grečuo grečuloida
illative grečuh grečuloih
inessive grečušša grečuloissa
elative grečušta grečuloista
adessive grečulla grečuloilla
ablative grečulda grečuloilda
translative grečukši grečuloiksi
essive grečuna grečuloina
comitative grečunke grečuloinke
abessive grečutta grečuloitta
Possessive forms of greču
1st person grečuni
2nd person grečuš
3rd person grečuh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References edit

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “greču”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN