rihi

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *riihi.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈrihi/, [ˈrʲihʲi]
• Rhymes: -ihi
• Hyphenation: ri‧hi

Noun

rihi

1. house, cabin, cottage
2. main room, living room
3. grain drying and threshing cabin

Inflection

Declension of rihi (type X/tuli, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	rihi	rihed
genitive	rihe	rihije, rihii
partitive	rihte	rihiite, rihii
illative	rihhe, rihhese	rihiise
inessive	rihez	rihiiz
elative	rihesse	rihiisse
allative	rihele	rihiile
adessive	rihelle	rihiille
ablative	rihelte	rihiilte
translative	rihessi	rihiissi
*) 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

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