purgu

Karelian

Regional variants of purgu

North Karelian (Viena)	purku
South Karelian (Tver)	purgu

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *purku. Cognates include Finnish purku and Veps purg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpurɡu/
• Hyphenation: pur‧gu

Noun

purgu (genitive purrun, partitive purguo)

1. (South Karelian) snowstorm, blizzard

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of purgu (type 1/tyttö rg-rr gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	purgu	purrut
genitive	purrun	purguloin
partitive	purguo	purguloida
illative	purguh	purguloih
inessive	purrušša	purguloissa
elative	purrušta	purguloista
adessive	purrulla	purguloilla
ablative	purrulda	purguloilda
translative	purrukši	purguloiksi
essive	purguna	purguloina
comitative	purrunke	purguloinke
abessive	purrutta	purguloitta

Possessive forms of purgu
1st person	purguni
2nd person	purguš
3rd person	purguh
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “purgu”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN