porru-hazi
Basque
editEtymology
editFrom porru (“leek”) + hazi (“seed”).
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: po‧rru-ha‧zi
Noun
editporru-hazi inan
- (informal) benefit, profit, gain
- 2002, Manuel Matxain, “Morroi baten arrenkurak”, in edited by Antonio Zavala, Uste gabean (Auspoa Liburutegia; 277), Auspoa, →ISBN, page 65:
- Orain sei illabete,
gutxi gora-bera,
morroi etorri nintzan
baserri batera,
porru-azi aundirik
eztet nik atera.- Six months ago
more or less,
I started working
in a farm,
little benefit
did I obtain.
- Six months ago
Declension
editDeclension of porru-hazi (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | porru-hazi | porru-hazia | porru-haziak |
ergative | porru-hazik | porru-haziak | porru-haziek |
dative | porru-haziri | porru-haziari | porru-haziei |
genitive | porru-haziren | porru-haziaren | porru-hazien |
comitative | porru-hazirekin | porru-haziarekin | porru-haziekin |
causative | porru-hazirengatik | porru-haziarengatik | porru-haziengatik |
benefactive | porru-hazirentzat | porru-haziarentzat | porru-hazientzat |
instrumental | porru-haziz | porru-haziaz | porru-haziez |
inessive | porru-hazitan | porru-hazian | porru-hazietan |
locative | porru-hazitako | porru-haziko | porru-hazietako |
allative | porru-hazitara | porru-hazira | porru-hazietara |
terminative | porru-hazitaraino | porru-haziraino | porru-hazietaraino |
directive | porru-hazitarantz | porru-hazirantz | porru-hazietarantz |
destinative | porru-hazitarako | porru-hazirako | porru-hazietarako |
ablative | porru-hazitatik | porru-hazitik | porru-hazietatik |
partitive | porru-hazirik | — | — |
prolative | porru-hazitzat | — | — |
Further reading
edit- “porru-hazi”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005