očča

Karelian

Regional variants of očča

North Karelian (Viena)	očča
South Karelian (Tver)	očča

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oncca. Cognates include Finnish otsa and Estonian ots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈot͡ʃːɑ/
• Hyphenation: oč‧ča

Noun

očča (genitive očan, partitive oččua)

1. forehead
2. front, facade

Declension

Viena Karelian declension of očča (type 5/koira, čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	očča	očat
genitive	očan	oččien
partitive	oččua	oččie
illative	oččah	oččih
inessive	očašša	očissa
elative	očašta	očista
adessive	očalla	očilla
ablative	očalta	očilta
translative	očakši	očiksi
essive	oččana	oččina
comitative	—	očineh
abessive	očatta	očitta

Tver Karelian declension of očča (type 5/koira čč-č gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	očča	očat
genitive	očan	očin
partitive	oččua	oččie
illative	oččah	oččih
inessive	očašša	očissa
elative	očašta	očista
adessive	očalla	očilla
ablative	očalda	očilda
translative	očakši	očiksi
essive	oččana	oččina
comitative	očanke	očinke
abessive	očatta	očitta

Possessive forms of očča
1st person	oččani
2nd person	oččaš
3rd person	oččah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “očča”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN