kojitoin

Karelian

Regional variants of kojitoin

North Karelian (Viena)	kojitoin
South Karelian (Tver)	kojitoin

Etymology

From koti／kodi (“home”) +‎ -toin. Akin to Finnish koditon and Ingrian koitoin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkojitoi̯n/
• Hyphenation: ko‧ji‧toin

Adjective

kojitoin (genitive kojittoman, partitive kojitointa／kojitoinda, comparative kojittomampi／kojittomambi, superlative kojittomin)

1. homeless

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of kojitoin (type 13/kojitoin, tt-t gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kojitoin	kojittomat
genitive	kojittoman	kojittomien
partitive	kojitointa	kojittomie
illative	kojittomah	kojittomih
inessive	kojittomašša	kojittomissa
elative	kojittomašta	kojittomista
adessive	kojittomalla	kojittomilla
ablative	kojittomalta	kojittomilta
translative	kojittomakši	kojittomiksi
essive	kojittomana	kojittomina
comitative	—	kojittomineh
abessive	kojittomatta	kojittomitta

Tver Karelian declension of kojitoin (type 13/kojitoin, tt-t gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kojitoin	kojittomat
genitive	kojittoman	kojittomien
partitive	kojitoinda	kojittomie
illative	kojittomah	kojittomih
inessive	kojittomašša	kojittomissa
elative	kojittomašta	kojittomista
adessive	kojittomalla	kojittomilla
ablative	kojittomalda	kojittomilda
translative	kojittomakši	kojittomiksi
essive	kojittomana	kojittomina
comitative	kojittomanke	kojittominke
abessive	kojittomatta	kojittomitta

Possessive forms of kojitoin
1st person	kojittomani
2nd person	kojittomaš
3rd person	kojittomah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kojitoin”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kojitoin”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN