Votic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *kipedä. Cognate with Finnish kipeä.

Pronunciation

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  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃipɑː/, [ˈt͡ʃipːɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ipɑː
  • Hyphenation: tšip‧pa

Adjective

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tšippa

  1. ailing, unhealthy
  2. sore

Noun

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tšippa

  1. pain, ache
  2. disease, illness, sickness
  3. abscess

Inflection

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Declension of tšippa (type VI/valka, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative tšippa tšippad
genitive tšippa tšippajõ, tšippai
partitive tšippatõ tšippaitõ, tšippai
illative tšippasõ, tšippa tšippaisõ
inessive tšippaz tšippaiz
elative tšippassõ tšippaissõ
allative tšippalõ tšippailõ
adessive tšippallõ tšippaillõ
ablative tšippaltõ tšippailtõ
translative tšippassi tšippaissi
*) 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) “tšipõa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn