Votic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *meccoi. Cognates include Finnish metso.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmet͡sːo/, [ˈmet͡sːo]
  • Rhymes: -et͡sːo
  • Hyphenation: met‧tso

Noun edit

mettso

  1. wood grouse, capercaillie

Inflection edit

Declension of mettso (type II/võrkko, tts-ts gradation)
singular plural
nominative mettso metsod
genitive metso mettsojõ, mettsoi
partitive mettsoa mettsoitõ, mettsoi
illative mettsosõ, mettso mettsoisõ
inessive metsoz mettsoiz
elative metsossõ mettsoissõ
allative metsolõ mettsoilõ
adessive metsollõ mettsoillõ
ablative metsoltõ mettsoiltõ
translative metsossi mettsoissi
*) 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) “mettso”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn