Karelian

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Regional variants of ijen
North Karelian
(Viena)
ijen
South Karelian
(Tver)
igen

Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *igen. Cognates include Finnish ien and Veps igin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈijen/
  • Hyphenation: i‧jen

Noun

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ijen (genitive ikenen, partitive ijentä)

  1. (North Karelian) gum (of the mouth)

Declension

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Viena Karelian declension of ijen (type 11/paimen, k-j gradation)
singular plural
nominative ijen ikenet
genitive ikenen ikenien
partitive ijentä ikenie
illative ikeneh ikenih
inessive ikeneššä ikenissä
elative ikeneštä ikenistä
adessive ikenellä ikenillä
ablative ikeneltä ikeniltä
translative ikenekši ikeniksi
essive ikeninä ikeninä
comitative ikenineh
abessive ikenettä ikenittä
Possessive forms of ijen
1st person ikeneni
2nd person ikeneš
3rd person ikeneh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

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  • P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “ijen”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN