rissime

Votic

Alternative forms

• rissimä

Etymology

Univerbation of rissi-emä

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈrisːimæ/, [ˈrʲisʲːimʲə̟]
• Rhymes: -isːimæ
• Hyphenation: ris‧si‧me

Noun

rissime

1. godmother

Inflection

Declension of rissime (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	rissime	rissimed
genitive	rissimä	rissimije, rissimii
partitive	rissimä	rissimiite, rissimii
illative	rissimäse, rissimä	rissimiise
inessive	rissimez	rissimiiz
elative	rissimesse	rissimiisse
allative	rissimele	rissimiile
adessive	rissimelle	rissimiille
ablative	rissimelte	rissimiilte
translative	rissimessi	rissimiissi
*) 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) “rissimä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn