nʹokka

Karelian

Regional variants of nʹokka

North Karelian (Viena)	nʹokka
South Karelian (Tver)	nʹokka

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nokka. Cognates include Finnish nokka and Veps nʹok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʲokːɑ/
• Hyphenation: nʹok‧ka

Noun

nʹokka (genitive nʹokan, partitive nʹokkua)

1. beak
2. spout
3. tip, end
4. toe (of footwear)
5. (rare) nose

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of nʹokka (type 5/koira, kk-k gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nʹokka	nʹokat
genitive	nʹokan	nʹokkien
partitive	nʹokkua	nʹokkie
illative	nʹokkah	nʹokkih
inessive	nʹokašša	nʹokissa
elative	nʹokašta	nʹokista
adessive	nʹokalla	nʹokilla
ablative	nʹokalta	nʹokilta
translative	nʹokakši	nʹokiksi
essive	nʹokkana	nʹokkina
comitative	—	nʹokineh
abessive	nʹokatta	nʹokitta

Tver Karelian declension of nʹokka (type 5/koira kk-k gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	nʹokka	nʹokat
genitive	nʹokan	nʹokin
partitive	nʹokkua	nʹokkie
illative	nʹokkah	nʹokkih
inessive	nʹokašša	nʹokissa
elative	nʹokašta	nʹokista
adessive	nʹokalla	nʹokilla
ablative	nʹokalda	nʹokilda
translative	nʹokakši	nʹokiksi
essive	nʹokkana	nʹokkina
comitative	nʹokanke	nʹokinke
abessive	nʹokatta	nʹokitta

Possessive forms of nʹokka
1st person	nʹokkani
2nd person	nʹokkaš
3rd person	nʹokkah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• (tip): kokka
• (nose): nenä

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “nʹokka”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “ńokka”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎^[1], Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN