Ingrian edit

Meals of the day
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *louna. Cognates include Finnish lounas and Estonian lõuna.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

lounat

  1. south
    • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 30:
      Lounatta päi.
      Towards the south.
  2. lunch, lunchtime

Declension edit

Declension of lounat (type 7/kevät, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative lounat lounaet
genitive lounaen lounaein
partitive lounatta lounaeita
illative lounaesse lounaeisse
inessive lounaees lounaeis
elative lounaest lounaeist
allative lounaelle lounaeille
adessive lounaeel lounaeil
ablative lounaelt lounaeilt
translative lounaeks lounaeiks
essive lounaenna, lounaeen lounaeinna, lounaein
exessive1) lounaent lounaeint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 275
  • Natalia V. Kuznetsova (2009) Фонологические системы Ижорских диалектов [Phonological systems of Ingrian dialects], Saint-Petersburg: Institute for Linguistic Studies (PhD thesis), page 268
  • Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку[1], →ISBN, page 73