vilʹlʹu

Livvi

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vilja. Cognates include Finnish vilja and Estonian vili.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋilʲːu/
• Hyphenation: vilʹ‧lʹu
• Rhymes: -ilʲːu

Noun

vilʹlʹu (genitive vilʹlʹan, partitive vilʹlʹua)

1. bread
2. grain, cereal

References

• Olga Žarinova (2012) Pagizemmo Karjalakse [Let's speak Karelian], St Petersburg, →ISBN, page 11
• Tatjana Boiko (2019) “vilʹlʹu”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN