kuorʹoi

Livvi

Kuorʹoloi.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *koorëh. Cognates include Finnish kuore and Veps koreh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuo̯rʲoi̯/
• Hyphenation: kuo‧rʹoi
• Rhymes: -uo̯rʲoi̯

Noun

kuorʹoi (genitive kuorʹoin, partitive kuorʹoidu)

1. smelt (fish of the family Osmeridae)

References

• Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 11
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “kuorʹoi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN