Votic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *routa.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈrou̯tɑ/, [ˈrou̯tə̠]
  • Rhymes: -ou̯tɑ
  • Hyphenation: rou‧tõ

Noun

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routõ

  1. ground frost

Inflection

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Declension of routõ (type III/jalkõ, t-vv gradation)
singular plural
nominative routõ rovvõd
genitive rovva routojõ, routoi
partitive routa routoitõ, routoi
illative routasõ, routa routoisõ
inessive rovvõz routoiz
elative rovvõssõ routoissõ
allative rovvõlõ routoilõ
adessive rovvõllõ routoillõ
ablative rovvõltõ routoiltõ
translative rovvõssi routoissi
*) 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) “routa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn