Votic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *tünkä.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈtyŋkæ/, [ˈtʲyŋkʲə̟]
  • Rhymes: -yŋkæ
  • Hyphenation: tün‧ke

Noun

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tünke

  1. stub, stump

Inflection

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Declension of tünke (type VIII/päive, nk-ng gradation)
singular plural
nominative tünke tünged
genitive tüngä tünkije, tünkii
partitive tünkä tünkiite, tünkii
illative tünkäse, tünkä tünkiise
inessive tüngez tünkiiz
elative tüngesse tünkiisse
allative tüngele tünkiile
adessive tüngelle tünkiille
ablative tüngelte tünkiilte
translative tüngessi tünkiissi
*) 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) “tünkä”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn