Karelian edit

Regional variants of mančikka
North Karelian
(Viena)
manšikka
South Karelian
(Tver)
mančikka

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *mancikka. Cognates include Finnish mansikka and Estonian maasikas.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑnt͡ʃikːɑ/
  • Hyphenation: man‧čik‧ka

Noun edit

mančikka (genitive mančikan, partitive mančikkua, diminutive mančikkane)

  1. (South Karelian) strawberry

Declension edit

Tver Karelian declension of mančikka (type 4/kala kk-k gradation)
singular plural
nominative mančikka mančikat
genitive mančikan mančikoin
partitive mančikkua mančikkoida
illative mančikkah mančikkoih
inessive mančikašša mančikoissa
elative mančikašta mančikoista
adessive mančikalla mančikoilla
ablative mančikalda mančikoilda
translative mančikakši mančikoiksi
essive mančikkana mančikkoina
comitative mančikanke mančikoinke
abessive mančikatta mančikoitta
Possessive forms of mančikka
1st person mančikkani
2nd person mančikkaš
3rd person mančikkah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References edit

  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “mančikka”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN