lassu
English
Noun
lassu (plural lassus or lassues)
- Archaic form of lasso.
- 1824, Edward Hibbet, Narrative of a Journey from Santiago de Chile to Buenos Ayres in July and August, 1821:
- Whenever we came to a post-house, the troop of horses took to the yard instinctively, and each man seized a lassu and caught his own. The lassu is a long rope, attached at one end to the saddle, with a slip knot at the other.
Verb
lassu (third-person singular simple present lassus or lassues, present participle lassuing, simple past and past participle lassued)
- Archaic form of lasso.
Anagrams
Votic
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *lastu.
Pronunciation
- (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈlɑsːu/, [ˈɫɑsːu]
- Rhymes: -ɑsːu
- Hyphenation: las‧su
Inflection
| Declension of lassu (type II/võrkko, ss-s gradation) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | lassu | lasud |
| genitive | lasu | lassujõ, lassui |
| partitive | lassua | lassuitõ, lassui |
| illative | lassusõ, lassu | lassuisõ |
| inessive | lasuz | lassuiz |
| elative | lasussõ | lassuissõ |
| allative | lasulõ | lassuilõ |
| adessive | lasullõ | lassuillõ |
| ablative | lasultõ | lassuiltõ |
| translative | lasussi | lassuissi |
| *) 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) “lassu”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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