Votic

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish mikään.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈmikæː/, [ˈmʲikːæ]
  • Rhymes: -ikæː
  • Hyphenation: mik‧kä

Pronoun

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mikkä

  1. (chiefly in the negative) nothing, (not) anything

Inflection

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Inflection of mikkä
singular plural
nominative mikkä
genitive
accusative
partitive mittä
illative
inessive
elative
allative
adessive
ablative
translative
**) 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

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