tšälü

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kälü.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæly/, [ˈt͡ʃæly]
• Rhymes: -æly
• Hyphenation: tšä‧lü

Noun

tšälü

1. sister-in-law (especially the wife of one's brother or husband's brother)

Inflection

Declension of tšälü (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	tšälü	tšälüd
genitive	tšälü	tšälüje, tšälüi
partitive	tšällüä	tšälüite, tšälüi
illative	tšällüse, tšällü	tšälüise
inessive	tšälüz	tšälüiz
elative	tšälüsse	tšälüisse
allative	tšälüle	tšälüile
adessive	tšälülle	tšälüille
ablative	tšälülte	tšälüilte
translative	tšälüssi	tšälüissi
*) 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) “tšälü”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn