Votic edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Finnish nuoriso (and nativized, compare noori).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈnoːriso/, [ˈnoːrʲiso]
  • Rhymes: -oːriso
  • Hyphenation: noo‧ri‧so

Noun edit

nooriso

  1. (collectively) the youth

Inflection edit

Declension of nooriso (type II/võrkko, s-z gradation)
singular plural
nominative nooriso
genitive noorizo
partitive noorisoa
illative noorisosõ, nooriso
inessive noorizoz
elative noorizossõ
allative noorizolõ
adessive noorizollõ
ablative noorizoltõ
translative noorizossi
*) 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) “nooriso”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn