mettse

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meccä.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈmet͡sːæ/, [ˈmet͡sːə̟]
• Rhymes: -et͡sːæ
• Hyphenation: met‧tse

Noun

mettse

1. forest

Inflection

Declension of mettse (type VIII/päive, tts-ts gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	mettse	metsäd
genitive	metsä	mettsije, mettsii
partitive	mettsä	mettsiite, mettsii
illative	mettsäse, mettsä	mettsiise
inessive	metsäz	mettsiiz
elative	metsässe	mettsiisse
allative	metsäle	mettsiile
adessive	metsälle	mettsiille
ablative	metsälte	mettsiilte
translative	metsässi	mettsiissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “mettsä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn