Votic edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Finnic *vetelä.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈvetelæ/, [ˈvetelə̟]
  • Rhymes: -etelæ
  • Hyphenation: ve‧te‧le

Adjective edit

vetele

  1. watery, thin

Inflection edit

Declension of vetele (type VIII/päive, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative vetele veteled
genitive vetelä vetelije, vetelii
partitive vetelä veteliite, vetelii
illative vetelääse, vetelä veteliise
inessive vetelez veteliiz
elative vetelässe veteliisse
allative vetelälee veteliile
adessive vetelälle veteliille
ablative vetelälte veteliilte
translative vetelässi veteliissi
*) 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 edit

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