meččy

Livvi

Meččy.

Alternative forms

• meččü (superseded spelling)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä. Cognates include Finnish metsä and Estonian mets.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmet͡ʃːy/
• Hyphenation: meč‧čy
• Rhymes: -et͡ʃːy

Noun

meččy

1. forest, woods

Declension

Declension of meččy (Type 7/leppy, čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	meččy	mečät
genitive	mečän	mečiin
partitive	meččiä	meččii
illative	meččäh	meččiih
inessive	mečäs	mečiis
elative	mečäspäi	mečiispäi
allative	mečäle	mečiile
adessive	mečäl	mečiil
ablative	mečälpäi	mečiilpäi
translative	mečäkse	mečiikse
essive	mečänny	mečiinny
abessive	mečättäh	mečiittäh
comitative	mečänke	mečiinke
instructive		mečiin
prolative	mečäči

References

• N. Gilojeva, S. Rudakova (2009) Karjalan kielen Livvin murdehen algukursu [Beginners' course of Karelian language's Livvi dialect]‎^[1] (in Livvi), Petrozavodsk, →ISBN, page 3
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “meččy”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN