lassu

See also: lassù and lassú

English edit

Noun edit

lassu (plural lassus or lassues)

Archaic form of lasso.
- 1824, Edward Hibbet, Narrative of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821:
  Whenever we came to a post-house, the troop of horses took to the yard instinctively, and each man seized a lassu and caught his own. The lassu is a long rope, attached at one end to the saddle, with a slip knot at the other.

Verb edit

lassu (third-person singular simple present lassus or lassues, present participle lassuing, simple past and past participle lassued)

Archaic form of lasso.

Anagrams edit

sauls

Votic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *lastu.

Pronunciation edit

(Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑsːu/, [ˈɫɑsːu]
Rhymes: -ɑsːu
Hyphenation: las‧su

Noun edit

lassu

chip, shaving, sliver (of wood)

Inflection edit

Declension of lassu (type II/võrkko, ss-s gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lassu	lasud
genitive	lasu	lassujõ, lassui
partitive	lassua	lassuitõ, lassui
illative	lassusõ, lassu	lassuisõ
inessive	lasuz	lassuiz
elative	lasussõ	lassuissõ
allative	lasulõ	lassuilõ
adessive	lasullõ	lassuillõ
ablative	lasultõ	lassuiltõ
translative	lasussi	lassuissi
^) the accusative* corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) ^) the terminative** is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ^*) the comitative** is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References edit

Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “lassu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn