tšämmel

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kämmäl.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæmːæl/, [ˈt͡ʃæmʲːə̟l]
• Rhymes: -æmːæl
• Hyphenation: tšäm‧mel

Noun

tšämmel

1. palm (of one's hand)

Inflection

Declension of tšämmel (type XIII/seeme, no gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	tšämmel	tšämmeled
genitive	tšämmele	tšämmelije, tšämmelii
partitive	tšämmelte	tšämmeliite, tšämmelii
illative	tšämmele, tšämmelese	tšämmeliise
inessive	tšämmelez	tšämmeliiz
elative	tšämmelesse	tšämmeliisse
allative	tšämmelele	tšämmeliile
adessive	tšämmelelle	tšämmeliille
ablative	tšämmelelte	tšämmeliilte
translative	tšämmelessi	tšämmeliissi
*) 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.

Descendants

• → Ingrian: kämmel

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “tšämmäl”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn