aarõ

Votic

Alternative forms

• haara

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *haara.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːrɑ/, [ˈɑːrə̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑːrɑ
• Hyphenation: aa‧rõ

Noun

aarõ

1. fork, branch
2. (figurative, usually in the plural) leg

Inflection

Declension of aarõ (type III/jalkõ, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	aarõ	aarõd
genitive	aara	aarojõ, aaroi
partitive	aara	aaroitõ, aaroi
illative	aarasõ, aara	aaroisõ
inessive	aarõz	aaroiz
elative	aarõssõ	aaroissõ
allative	aarõlõ	aaroilõ
adessive	aarõllõ	aaroillõ
ablative	aarõltõ	aaroiltõ
translative	aarõssi	aaroissi
*) 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

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