rintõ

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rinta.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈrintɑ/, [ˈrʲintə̠]
• Rhymes: -intɑ
• Hyphenation: rin‧tõ

Noun

rintõ

1. chest
2. breast

Inflection

Declension of rintõ (type III/jalkõ, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	rintõ	rinnõd
genitive	rinna	rintojõ, rintoi
partitive	rinta	rintoitõ, rintoi
illative	rintasõ, rinta	rintoisõ
inessive	rinnõz	rintoiz
elative	rinnõssõ	rintoissõ
allative	rinnõlõ	rintoilõ
adessive	rinnõllõ	rintoillõ
ablative	rinnõltõ	rintoiltõ
translative	rinnõssi	rintoissi
*) 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) “rinta”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn