Votic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ingrian pouta.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈpou̯tɑ/, [ˈpou̯tə̠]
  • Rhymes: -ou̯tɑ
  • Hyphenation: pou‧tõ

Noun

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poutõ

  1. dry weather, weather without rain or snow

Inflection

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Declension of poutõ (type III/jalkõ, t-vv gradation)
singular plural
nominative poutõ povvõd
genitive povva poutojõ, poutoi
partitive pouta poutoitõ, poutoi
illative poutasõ, pouta poutoisõ
inessive povvõz poutoiz
elative povvõssõ poutoissõ
allative povvõlõ poutoilõ
adessive povvõllõ poutoillõ
ablative povvõltõ poutoiltõ
translative povvõssi poutoissi
*) 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

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